{"id":1679,"date":"2008-08-15T17:36:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T00:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2008-08-15T17:36:04","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T00:36:04","slug":"slate-how-i-became-a-soldier-in-the-georgia-russia-cyberwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/15\/slate-how-i-became-a-soldier-in-the-georgia-russia-cyberwar\/","title":{"rendered":"Slate: How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img2.slate.com\/media\/1\/123125\/123054\/2180708\/2196697\/080814_Tech_CyberwarTN.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"20\" hspace=\"20\"\/>Big ups to Evgeny Morozov for penning this <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2008\/08\/how-i-became-a.html\">oft-lauded<\/a> piece for Slate, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2197514\/pagenum\/all\/#page_start\">An Army of Ones and Zeroes: How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar.<\/a>&#8221; (Not to toot my own horn, but I played a small role in this piece, in that Evgeny asked me who to contact at Slate for the piece, and he took care of the rest.)<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had a much simpler research objective: to test how much damage someone like me, who is quite aloof from the Kremlin physically and politically, could inflict upon Georgia&#8217;s Web infrastructure, acting entirely on my own and using only a laptop and an Internet connection. If I succeeded, that would somewhat contradict the widely shared assumption\u2014at least in most of the Western media\u2014that the Kremlin is managing this cyberwarfare in a centralized fashion. My mission, if successful, would show that the field is open to anyone with a grudge against Georgia, regardless of their exact relationship with state authorities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the fact that Estonia is providing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=93522554\">technical expertise<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9112399&#038;\">web hosting<\/a> to Georgia after having gone through <a href=\"http:\/\/theworld.org\/?q=node\/18057\">similar attacks<\/a> last year by legions of anonymous Russian hackers definitely piques my interest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big ups to Evgeny Morozov for penning this oft-lauded piece for Slate, &#8220;An Army of Ones and Zeroes: How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar.&#8221; (Not to toot my own horn, but I played a small role in this piece, in that Evgeny asked me who to contact at Slate for the piece, and he took care of the rest.) He writes: I had a much simpler research objective: to test how much damage someone like me, who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57,73,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-estonia","category-georgia","category-journalism","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-r5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}