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Re:How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar - E... by noonespecial on Sunday August 17, 2008 @12:01AM (#278167)
How I became a script-kiddie in the Georgia-Russia flamewar -

That's more like it. The whole thing would have been funny if it weren't for the actual tanks and stuff.

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Re:How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar - E... by tlrobinson on Sunday August 17, 2008 @05:10AM (#278282)
I read the article and was about to post the exact same thing.

I mean it sounds like one of his "weapons" as a "soldier" of this "cyberwar" went something like this...

    document.body.appendChild(iframe = document.createElement("iframe"));
    window.setInterval(function() { iframe.src = "http://some-georgia-website.ge/"; }, 100);
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Re:How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar - E... by dougp on Saturday August 16, 2008 @06:23PM (#278014)
If anything this article shows just how exagerated the whole "cyber war" has been.
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Re:How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar - E... by fauigerzigerk on Sunday August 17, 2008 @04:59AM (#278279)
Exagerated in terms of complexity and conspiracy, but not in terms of effects probably. Nationalist mass rage is in a way much more scary than some government action.
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Re:How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar - E... by Hexstream on Saturday August 16, 2008 @07:22PM (#278049)
Shouldn't 1000 requests per second coming from a single IP address trigger a firewall rule?...
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Re:How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar - E... by rw on Saturday August 16, 2008 @05:50PM (#277992)
All I had to do was create a blank text file, copy and paste the URLs of any Web sites that I wanted to attack, specify how many times these sites should be pinged, and copy and paste a few lines of code from the original instructions.

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Re:How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar - E... by mynameishere on Saturday August 16, 2008 @06:41PM (#278023)
The last bit was to rename it with a .BAT extension, instantly converting it into a file that Windows recognizes as an executable program.

My e-Molotov cocktail was ready to go. I just had to double-click the file...

Yeah. Let's roll!

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Re:How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar - E... by Hexstream on Saturday August 16, 2008 @07:10PM (#278041)
Should be well-received by the worse is better, gets stuff done crowd.
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Re:How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar - E... by crazyirish on Saturday August 16, 2008 @07:57PM (#278069)
reading this just hurts.
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