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A comment on How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar - Evgeny Morozov.

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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