Cyber Attacks Force Georgia To Blogger

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Russia took over control of the major highway passing through Gori and “split the country’s western part with the east,” President Saakashvili said at a session of National Security Council at 8:45pm on August 11.

It was earlier reported that the Russian forces were in control of Gori.

Russian forces also advanced deep into the Georgian territory from breakaway Abkhazia as well taking control of Senaki and are now moving further into east from Senaki.

“Situation is extremely grave,” Saakashvili said. “This is occupation attempt, attempt to totally occupy Georgia, attempt to destroy Georgia.”

“Russia goal is to put an end to existence of the Georgian state,” he added.

“We are receiving only moral and humanitarian help from the international community, but we need more than that. We want them to stop this barbaric aggressor.”

Source: Civil.Ge "Russian Forces Take Over Major Highway, Continue Advancing"


Cyber attacks on the Georgian Government websites have forced the government of Georgia to use Blogger to get the word out on what is happening in their beleagured nation. Check out their blog.

Hat Tip: Wired

Commentary

I sure hope the Russians don't take out Blogger. In case the whole system goes down, I'll be at my Aplha Site.

In a situation like this...if Georgia wanted to, they could push out raw video to the net on the video-sharing sites, and let the bloggers in other countries help them get the word out about what is happening in Georgia.

This could develop into a real 5GW effort where we could join the information battlespace. I'd be more than willing to help combat Russia.

**update** 2.23 PM The President of Poland,Lech Kaczynski , is now allowing the President of Georgia to use his own website to get information out, and the Presidents of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have condemned the Russian invasion of Georgia.

**update** 2.30 PM The servers handling traffic to the Georgian President's website are now in Atlanta per Matt Drudge.

Hat Tip: Brussels Journal



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