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Something as simple as 2+2 still leaves you with too many options.
The denial of services attack is used by pranks. What could possibly the Russian secret services have achieved by DOSing the websites of your government organisations? Breaking in stealing sensitive information would be a better option for a resourceful state organisation.
You have developed an unhealthy phobia, pal.
Here is an article on BBC a year later after the DOS attack: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7208511.stm
PS Galushkevich sounds very much like Belarusian surname. He was our boy!Estonia fines man for 'cyber war'
A 20-year-old ethnic Russian man is the first person to be convicted for taking part in a "cyber war" against Estonia.
Dmitri Galushkevich was fined 17,500 kroons (£830) for an attack which blocked the website of the Reform Party of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip.The assault, between 25 April and 4 May 2007, was one of a series by hackers on Estonian institutions and businesses.At the time, Estonia accused the Russian government of orchestrating the attacks. Moscow denied any involvement.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the BBC in May 2007 that the allegations were "completely untrue".
Minority attacks
The attacks took place against a backdrop of riots by ethnic Russian Estonians prompted by the removal of a Soviet war memorial from the centre of Tallinn. Pirate message which appeared on Estonian Reform Party's website
The website of Estonia's ruling party was hacked During the unrest, one person was killed and more than 150 injured.
Moving the so-called Bronze Soldier was seen as an affront to the memory of Russian soldiers who died during World War II.Prosecutors said Mr Galushkevich, a student, had claimed the attack was an act of protest against Mr Ansip, who became a hate figure for Estonia's Russian minority.Ethnic Russians make up about a quarter of Estonia's population of 1.3 million.Other websites that were crippled by the denial-of-service attacks, which knock websites offline by swamping servers with requests, included those of the state government, political parties and leading newspapers.Some sites also redirected users to images of Soviet soldiers and quotations from Martin Luther King about resisting "evil".
Most of the hackers were believed to be based in Russia - the Estonian government said at the time that Kremlin computers were used to carry out a number of the attacks.
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