Resources | Special coverage: Israel-Palestine 'cyber war'

Raid on E-tebbe, part 6

Vmyths editor Rob Rosenberger's continuing rant (see below) about 'cyber war' hype in the Gaza region. Part 6 looks at mi2g's efforts to drum up PR about the "Inter-fada," or holy cyber-war. Rosenberger says he'd choose a cybercide bomber over a suicide bomber any day. And he'd choose fragmented TCP packets over fragmented body parts...

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And that's a fact!

Four teenagers in Israel circumvented state-of-the-art antivirus software designed by renowned experts with Ph.Ds and masters degrees. According to former Israeli science minister Michael Eitan, those kids are "terrorists" in every sense of the word, just like Osama bin Laden ... and Vmyths editor Rob Rosenberger wants those teens to rot in prison.

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Commentary from The Star (Jordan)

Zeid Nasser, writing in one of Jordan's premier newspapers, puts the 'cyber war' in proper perspective. "All this damage in cyberspace, as interesting and psychologically gratifying as it may seem, does not even begin to compare to the actual devastation occurring in the real world..."

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Commentary from Attrition.org

The "archivists" of website defacements in the co-called 'cyber war' voice their opposition to the hysteria. "The real irony is that [so-called security companies and news media] are using data from the Attrition web defacement mirror to support their hyped conclusions. Let's take a little reality break, folks -- the sky isn't falling..."

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Raid on e-Tebbe, part 5

Vmyths editor Rob Rosenberger's continuing rant (see below) about 'cyber war' hype in the Gaza region. Part 5 exposes a key fearmonger. "iDefense wants you to think they monitor 'escalating cyber attacks' in the Gaza region. In reality, they document a bunch of wannabees who lob ping packets at each other..."

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Raid on e-Tebbe, part 4

Editor Rob Rosenberger's continuing rant (see below) about 'cyber war' hype in the Gaza region. Part 4 documents a reader who feels the anti-hysteria is itself hysteria. "The problem with hysterics is that it breeds resentment..."

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Raid on e-Tebbe, part 3

Editor Rob Rosenberger's continuing rant (see below) about 'cyber war' hype in the Gaza region. Part 3 looks at all the trivial things like bullets, mob riots, tear gas, pipe bombs, cross-border kidnappings, and dead women & children. "Memo to the Gaza region: somebody forgot to tell you the Internet changed the nature of war..."

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Raid on e-Tebbe, part 2

Editor Rob Rosenberger's continuing rant (see below) about 'cyber war' hype in the Gaza region. "Self-appointed hacker-turned-diplomat Mikael Bouzaglo dreams of becoming a politician. (Think of him as Israel's 'Jess e-Jackson.') He put down his kiddie scripts and 'called on his comrades to stop attacking Arab sites...' "

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Raid on e-Tebbe, part 1

Editor Rob Rosenberger asks readers to "Put yourself in the shoes of an Israeli or Palestinian whose son died in street fighting. How would you feel if a bureaucrat compared your loss to a bad AOL connection?"

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