We've seen the headlines before, most recently in the Russia/Estonia disputewhich never escalated to armed conflict, but they're coming out again in the fighting between Russia and Georgia over the disputed South Ossetia region.

Most people I know tend to roll their eyes at these reports and consider them fantastic and overblown, a case of doomsayers and reporters looking for something shocking cooking up a whole lot of something out of almost nothing. And it's true, the extent to which any of the articles covering the conflict from the electronic angle can exaggerate is pretty much limited to denial of service attacks and website defacements, which are nothing that your average day on the Internet doesn't include plenty of examples of as it is.

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