Caveat Emptor

Primeiro, os russos resolveram testar a idéia:

The internet warfare broke out on April 27th, amid a furious row between Estonia and Russia over the removal of a Soviet war monument from the centre of the capital, Tallinn, to a military cemetery (pictured below). The move sparked rioting and looting by several thousand protesters from Estonia’s large population of ethnic Russians, who tend to see the statue as a cherished memorial to wartime sacrifice. Estonians mostly see it rather as a symbol of a hated foreign occupation.

Agora, parece que os chineses gostaram da idéia:

The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American ­officials.

The Pentagon acknowledged shutting down part of a computer system serving the office of Robert Gates, defence secretary, but declined to say who it believed was behind the attack.

Deveras:

Chinese hackers, some believed to be from the People’s Liberation Army, have been attacking the computer networks of British government departments, the Guardian has learned.

The attackers have hit the network at the Foreign Office as well as those in other key departments, according to Whitehall officials.

Como comentei com alguns amigos jornalistas, há pouco, acho que este é um assunto que está implorando por alguma atenção por parte de uma publicação nacional voltada a coisas de tecnologia e/ou política. Inclusive, seria muito interessante descobrir o quanto este tipo de ataques já faz parte das discussões dentro da academia e da intelligentsia brasileira.

Claro, se eu estiver sendo um completo ignorante e alguém aí souber de alguma revista ou jornal brasileiro que já tenham falado sobre isso, me avisem. Não só para retratar-me, mas também para que eu possa ler a matéria.