Palabras del Ministro de Defensa de Estonia
A continuación algunas de las citas más importantes de la transcripción de lo dicho por el Ministro de Defensa de Estonia, Jaak Aaviksoo, en Washington (28 Nov. 2007), referente a los ataques DDoS sufridos en su nación en el mes de mayo:
Acerca de la responsabilidad del uso de ciertas armas
It is a complicated question to what extent individual people or computer owners can be held responsible for those attacks. Will I just bring you a small mental exercise. In a war, in a regular war, guns are used as weapons to fight. In cyber attacks, computers are the weapons. We have made rules and regulations so anybody who owns a gun has to keep it from being used against third parties, either by leaving it at home on the table accessible to your children and them using it against their friends or classmates, then it’s clear that we can be held responsible.
Acerca de la velocidad de respuesta
…close cooperation. Even more so, we’re taking into account the very nature of those attacks; they are speed; events happen in milliseconds or even in shorter time periods. They develop over minutes or hours. And so, fast reaction is essential.
