The attacks against websites in Georgia are most likely populist in nature rather than state sponsored says Gary Warner, director of computer forensics research at UAB. In a blog post today, Warner has provided some evidence regarding his speculations including scripts from Russian language websites. He writes: "This script was copied from one of more than forty Russian language sites where I found copies of an 'attack script' that people were being encouraged to run on their own computers..."
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Well duh! Some of us haven been saying this from early on and the best evidence of it was that if the Russian government wanted to do this it would have been far more effective.