When you were speaking of sanctions then it wasn't "we're talking of cyberwar"
We were talking about how worthwhile sanctions were as a response to cyberwar. Your comment was on sanctions over something else, as as such irrelevant.
The article can say alot of things
Again, if you want to go all anti-Russian conspiracy theorist on us and proclaim the article isn't telling 'the full story', then you can give the details. But as I can say to you, to Shade2, to MatthewJ, to Attila... there's simply no *evidence* for someone reading this thread at this point to believe 'General Putin' instructed the FSB to bombard Estonian websites. Indeed the evidence seems to be that DDoS attacks have come from thousands of servers, mainly disconnected with the state, around Russia and the World.
Can you explain why tens of thousands, as desrcibed in the article, would all of the sudden visit a site at once?
You seem to have misunderstood what I was saying. Because the nature of the 'attack' is often simply having lots of people visit a website and because an individual may have legitimate reasons to visit a website, it's pretty hard to mount a case against such an individual unless they've gone somewhere 1000 times or something.... that's if you can trace them to begin with.
You have to ask yourself here though, who is responsible for these Russians being so pissed off? Maybe the state-sponsored propaganda...
Well, you can ask yourself the same question. I live in Australia and don't look at 'Russian propaganda' online. I've heard about the story, read about the violence, and know therefore that the Estonian government carted this statue out of the centre of Tallinn. I think that's certainly disrespectful, but then again I am not even Russian and had no relatives that died to drive back Facist forces out of my country and Estonia's.
If you're saying the Russian media has 'lied' about this story, then detail the lies. But from the POV of my 'Western propaganda', the reason Russians are pissed off is that pissing on someone's war dead TENDS to piss people off. You don't need 'propaganda' to make people annoyed about it, and quite frankly the idea that it's 'propaganda's fault' detracts from the clear fact that the Estonian government have generated this animosity from Russians directly through their own actions.