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attacks, essentially millions of simultaneous online hits, shut down access to government websites and newspaper websites and other online media. then the telephone networks, the credit card verification systems, banking, even the basic indexing structure of the internet, all tied up in estonia. it went on for weeks. essentially a total shutdown. the russian government said they did not do it but couldn t rule out the possibility that patriotic individual russians just did it on their own free time. the russian government also said they weren t behind a similar but more crippling attack on internet and i.t. systems in the nation of georgia the following year. even before physical military fighting broke out, georgians could not get access to information from their own government. they could not read online media, they couldn t call out of the country or send e-mails out of the country to let anybody else know what was going on in that war. that s cyber war. russians appear to be good a

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