Probably the most poignant statement in this article by Wired Magazine is “Welcome to Web War one.”

Long story short, protesting something via good-old-fashioned rioting is so passe. If rioting typically involves looting, what is going on beneath the guise of the bot-net attacks?

Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe

This was not the first botnet strike ever, nor was it the largest. But never before had an entire country been targeted on almost every digital front all at once, and never before had a government itself fought back. “The attacks were aimed at the essential electronic infrastructure of the Republic of Estonia,” Aaviksoo tells me later. “All major commercial banks, telcos, media outlets, and name servers — the phone books of the Internet — felt the impact, and this affected the majority of the Estonian population. This was the first time that a botnet threatened the national security of an entire nation.”