[96777] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Slate Podcast on Estonian DOS atatck
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Merike Kaeo)
Thu May 24 11:54:06 2007
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Cc: Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com>,
"ge@linuxbox.org" <ge@linuxbox.org>, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
From: Merike Kaeo <kaeo@merike.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 08:56:32 -0700
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Yes...definitely b. I was there.......and Bill speaks from
experience as well since the RIPE meeting happened to be in Tallinn
during the peak of the attack. I'm of estonian decent btw.......so I
could keep up with local news (besides having personal contacts) and
there were severe attacks to government sites and major banks as well
as other facilities. Although nothing ended up being down for more
than an hour that had been recognized ahead of time as being
'important'. Most people are not aware how much estonia relies on
it's network infrastructure for government operations, banking and
the daily life of ordinary people. They had the good fortune of
starting 'fresh' in the early 1990's without legacy baggage :)
They were prepared for the worst......technically the folks I've
dealt with are some of the best.........and it's important to keep in
mind that since the attack(s) were politically motivated, the timing
of the worst of it was known and the banks, ISPs, police, government
could coordinate a pretty tight plan of action. It is an unusual
situation...or at least the first of its kind.
- merike
