Re: 10 easy steps to writing the scariest cyberwarfare article ever

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Abe Singer <abe () oyvay nu>
Date: April 14, 2009 5:00:25 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] 10 easy steps to writing the scariest cyberwarfare  
article ever

For IP, if you wish...

Even the "riots" in Estonia seemed to hyped as must as the online
siege.  I was in Tallinn the evening that it happened, having dinner
in a restaurant just a few blocks away.  I didn't even know a "riot"
had happened until the next day when I saw it in the news.  From what I
could tell, the actual rioting was mostly a handful of teenage hooligans
who used the protests as an excuse to break some store windows.

Regardless, the article *is* right on target.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 07:57:01AM -0400, David Farber wrote:
> 2. Begin the story in Estonia, with a reference to its 2007 attacks;
> make sure to play up the “E-stonia” tune and how the entire country
> was under online siege for a month (never mention that rioting in the
> Estonian streets was much more devastating and that the actual online
> siege lasted for twenty minutes at best). Setting the story in Estonia
> would also help to play up the Soviet threat that never really left
> the country. Blame NATO's impotence, praise Skype's genius, quote non-
> existent local Web entrepreneurs who lost all their savings in the
> 2007cyber-attacks.




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