[governance] the Estonian cyber war incident of 2007 - A socio-psychological analysis

[Gadi Evron]

Hello,

In the past year I have been working in collaboration with  
psychologists Robert Cialdini and Rosanna Guadagno on a paper  
analyzing some of what I saw from the social perspective in Estonia,  
when I wrote the post-mortem analysis for the 2007 attacks, but didn't  
understand at the time.

We analyze how the Russian-speaking population online was manipulated  
to attack Estonia (and Georgia) in the "cyber war" incidents, and how  
it could happen again (regardless of if any actor is behind it).

I am especially happy that I could research this from a perspective  
outside of that of technology or political science, and while this is  
a negative example it certainly comes to show the power individuals do  
have for activism on the Internet, and how it can also be abused.

Article on El Reg:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/28/web_war_one_anonymity/

Paper (for download with pay :( ):
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cyber.2009.0134

Thanks, and any comments appreciated,

     Gadi.

-- 
Gadi Evron.

Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/
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