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Internet attacks against Georgian web sites

Facts:
1. There are botnet attacks against .ge websites.
2. These attacks affect the .ge Internet infrastructure, but it's reachable.
3. It doesn't seem Internet infrastructure is directly attacked.
4. Every other political tension in the past 10 years, from a comic of the 
Prophet Muhammad to the war in Iraq, were followed by online supporters 
attacking targets which seem affiliated with the opposing side, and vise-versa.

Up to the Estonian war, such attacks would be called "hacker enthusiast 
attacks" or "cyber terrorism" (of the weak sort). Nowadays any attack with a 
political nature seems to get the "information warfare" tag. When 300 

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