RE: Estonia Urges Firm EU, NATO Response to Cyber Attacks

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- "Steve Manzuik" <smanzuik () juniper net> wrote:

> > "Considering the scale of damage and the way these cyber-attacks have
> > been
> > organised, we can compare them to terrorist activities," Aaviksoo said
> > a
> > day after raising the new mode of warfare at talks with his fellow EU
> > defence ministers in Brussels.
>
> I think when lights start getting turned off, pipelines start exploding,
> and water damns start overflowing it is time to call in help from NATO
> and others.  But simply the defacing or DoS of government websites,
> while a problem, isn't as big of a deal as the real bad stuff can be.
>
> The banking angle is interesting though.  I wonder exactly what NATO or
> any organization could do in this case.

I think everyone needs to rethink the issue.

As more and more governmental operations go online, and as electronic
commerce is targeted, this crosses traditional boundaries with regards
to how one defines terrorism.

$.02,

- - ferg

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