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If you flip towards the back of this month's Wired magazine (15.09) you'll find an earnest two-page graphic depicting IP packets blasting off like ICBMs from Asia, arcing in a polar trajectory and slamming into six defenseless U.S. cities.
Estonia's computer emergency response team responded to the junk packets with technical aplomb and coolheaded professionalism, while Estonia's leadership … well, didn't. Faced with DDoS and nationalistic, cross-border hacktivism -- nuisances that have plagued the rest of the wired world for the better part of a decade -- Estonia's leaders lost perspective.
"When I look at a nuclear explosion, and the explosion that happened in our country in May, I see the same thing."
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