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1 | Georgia, Russia: Cyber Attacks on Blogger ‘Cyxymu’ | Rosia, Georgia: fanafihana an-tserasara an'i “Cyxymu” mpamaham-bolongana |
2 | A year ago, the Russo-Georgian war coincided with the 2008 Beijing Olympics, diverting some of the public attention from the peaceful sporting event. | Herintaona lasa izay dia nifanandrify tamin'ny lalao olaimpika tany Beijing 2008 ny adin'i Rosia sy Georgia, takon'io lalao ara-panatajahantena mitandro ny fandriampahalemana io. |
3 | This week, cyber attacks on LiveJournal, Twitter and Facebook, targeting Tbilisi-based LJ/Twitter/Facebook user cyxymu, have added an extra dimension to the coverage of the first anniversary of the war - and even re-focused it to some extent. | Ilay mpampiasa ny LJ/Twitter/Facebook cyxymu mipetraka any Tbilisi kosa indray no tena nokendrena, nahatonga ny fanembatsembanana goavana nahazo ny LiveJournal, Twitter ary Facebook tamin'ity herinandro ity, nanampy trotraka ny fitantarana ny fahatsiarovana ny tsingerintaona voalohany ny ady sady nampitodika ny saina hjery any aza. |
4 | Initially, the Russo-Georgian connection was not evident. | Tsy niharihary ny fifandraisany tamin'ny adin'i Rosia sy Georgia tamin'ny voalohany. |
5 | On Aug. 6, LJ user mhwest posted this note (ENG) in the lj_maintenance LJ community, announcing that the blogging platform was “under attack”: | Tamin'ny 6 aogositra dia namoaka ity naoty (ENG) ity ny mpampiasa LJ mhwest tao amin'ny lj_maintenance vondrona LJ, milaza fa “tratran'ny fanafihana” ity sehatra famahanam-bolongana ity: |
6 | Wonderful World of DDoS | Tontolo mahasondrianan'ny DDoS |
7 | As some of you may know, LiveJournal has been under attack this morning from 6:00am PST until ??? | Araka izay efa fantatry ny sasany aminareo dia nisy nanafika an-tserasera ny LiveJournal nanaomboka androany maraina tamin'ny 6:00 maraina PST mandra-paha??? |
8 | We have taken steps to mitigate the DDoS but some users may still experience site connectivity problems. […] | Efa nandray andraikitra izahay hahalefy ny DDoS saingy mety mbola tratran'ny olana eo amin'ny fiseraserana ny sasany. […] |
9 | This post has received over 250 comments, but there is only a handful of mentions of the geopolitical cause for the outages. | Nihoatra ny 250 ny fanehoan-kevitra tamin'ity lahatsoratra ity fa azo nisaina tamin'ny rantsan-tanana ny nampifandray ny fahasimbana tamin'ny antony jeopolitika. |
10 | Here is a sampling: | Indreto ny ohatra: |
11 | lavvyan - Aug. 6: | lavvyan - Aog. |
12 | The Russians are coming! | 6: Ho avy ny Rosiana! |
13 | No, wait… […] | Tsia, andraso aloha… […] |
14 | nysidra - Aug. 7: | nysidra - Aog. |
15 | I remembered seeing this comment yesterday. | 7: Tadidiko fa nahita ityhevitra ity aho omaly. |
16 | Just so you know, you were right. ^_^ | Mba mampahafantatra anao fotsiny hoe marina ny anao. ^_^ |
17 | Twitter's Meltdown: Blame the Russians | Twitter's Meltdown: Blame the Russians (miampanga ny Rosiana ny siokan'i Meltdown) |
18 | Also on Aug. 7, Eternal Remont quoted from a BBC piece (ENG), explaining the situation: | Tamin'ny 7 Aog tokoa i Eternal Remont no nanatsonga fehezanteny avy tamin'ny BBC (ENG), hanazavana ny raharaha: |
19 | Yesterday, as blood poured down from the heavens, the seas boiled and the Earth was ripped apart because of the Denial of Service attack against Google, Twitter and Facebook (“OMG, I can't tweet about the fact that Twitter is down!) we pondered one alluring possibility: is Russia involved? | Omaly, raha latsaka avy an-danitra ny ra, nangotraka ny ranomasina ary nitresaka ny Tany fa tratran'ny Denial of Service (mandà tsy mety hiasa) ny Google, ny Twitter ary ny Facebook (“OMG, Tsy afa-nisioka (tweet) aho satria tsy nandeha ny Twitter!) efa nieritreritra ity mety ho nitranga ity aho: tafiditra amin'ity raharaha ity ve i Rosia? |
20 | Maybe. | Angamba. |
21 | We do know that the disruption of all social networking on the planet was directed at one person: | Ny fahatapahan'ny serasera ara-tsosialy rehetra nanerana ny tany dia nikendrena olona iray: |
22 | BBC: “The massively co-ordinated attack on websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter was directed at one individual, a pro-Georgian blogger known as Cyxymu… Specifically, the person is an activist blogger and a botnet was directed to request his pages at such a rate that it impacted service for other users.” […] | BBC: “Olona iray, mpamaham-bolongana manohana ny Georgiana antsoina hoe Cyxymu, no nokendrena ka nahatonga ny fanafihana voarindra nahazo ny Google, Facebook ary Twitter… mpamaham-bolongana mazoto io olona io ary nisy botnet iray ‘nitifitifitra' hatrany ny pejiny ka nahatratra ny an'ireo mpampiasa hafa izany.” […] |
23 | And so, on the eve of the first anniversary of the war, LJ user cyxymu - whose nickname is a latinized version of the Russian spelling of Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia - became a celebrity of sorts. | Ary amin'izao ankatoky ny tsingerintaona voalohany ny ady izao, dia lasa nalaza ho azy ny mpampiasa LJ cyxymu - izay nalaina avy amin'ny fanonona Rosiana natao endri-tsoratra latina ny anarana Sukhumi, renivohitr'i Abkhazia. |
24 | Cyrillic LJ users - diana-ledi, taki-net, markgrigorian and many others - reported (RUS) not being able to publish posts and comments containing cyxymu‘s nickname. | Nitatitra [amin'ny teny rosiana] ny mpampiasa amin'ny endri-tsoratra Sirilika ao amin'ny LJ toa an'i - diana-ledi, taki-net, markgrigorian sy ny hafa tsy tambo isaina - fa tsy tsy mety mivoaka ny lahatsoratra rehefa mametraka ny anaram-bositra cyxymu ry zareo. |
25 | His primary LJ blog and two backups - cyxymu1 and cyxymu2 - are currently inaccessible (some of his recollections, however, were translated by Global Voices' author Lyndon in Oct. 2007 and July 2008: The War in Abkhazia - ‘Cyxymu' Remembers, and Abkhazia, Georgia: “Home. ”) | Na ny bolongana LJ fototra na ireo roa hafa fanao tahiry - cyxymu1 sy cyxymu2 - dia samy tsy mety mipoitra avokoa (nefa efa nadikan'ny mpanoratra ato amin'ny Global Voices dia i Lyndon ny sasany aminn'y lahatsorany toy ny tamin'ny Oktobra 2007 sy jolay 2008: Ady tao Abkhazia - Mahatsiaro i ‘Cyxymu', sy Abkhazia, Georgia: “Tonga. ”) |
26 | Cyxymu also has a Blogger blog, Twitter account, a public Facebook page, and a Facebook group with more than 750 members, created by someone else to support his cause. | Manana Bolongana Blogger, Twitter, takelaka Facebook ho an'ny daholobe, ary vondrona Facebook manana mpikambana mihoatra ny 750, izay natsangan'olo-kafa hanohanana azy i Cyxymu. |
27 | Evgeny Morozov of the Foreign Policy's Net. | Evgeny Morozov misahana ny politika ivelany ao amin'ny bolongana Net. |
28 | Effect blog wrote (ENG) that he'd been “calling attention to CYXYMU's problems for months now, and this brought no results.” | Effect no manoratra (ENG) fa efa “nantsoina izy volana maromaro lasa izay hijery ny olana mahazo an'i CYXYMU, fa tsynahita na inona na inona izy.” |
29 | Here is Evgeny's take on the recent cyber attacks: | Toy izao ny hevitr'i Evgeny tamin'ity fanafihana an-tserasera ity: |
30 | […] In short, I think that the current wave of attacks had one objective: to flesh attackers' cyber-muscles by revealing the kind of leverage that CYXYMU's detractors have on the Internet's most popular sites. | […] Raha fehezina dia tanjona iray no kendren'ity fanafihana ankehitriny ity: Mampiseho ry zalahy be sandry an-tserasera tanjaky ny mpanenjika an'i CYXYMU tamin'ny (fanembatsembanana) ny vohikala malaza indrindra amin'ny aterineto. |
31 | Make no mistake: these attacks on Twitter and Facebook were NOT about silencing him down or thwarting the distribution of information that would Kremlin feel uncomfortable. […] | Aoka tsy ho diso hevitra: TSY natao hampangina azy na hanakanana azy hamoaka vaovao mety henelingelina an'i Kremlin ny nahazo an'i Twitter sy Facebook. […] |
32 | If you carefully look at CYXYMU's Twitter account (most of it in Russian), you will see that there is really no information of ANY political significance there. | Raha mandinika tsara izay voasoratr'i CYXYMU ao amin'ny Twitter (amin'ny teny Rosiana ny ankamaroany), dia hahatsikaritra fa TSY ahitanao resaka na sompirana politika velively ao. |
33 | He's been tweeting since late December 2008, produced 41 updates, and most of them had nothing to do with politics (here are some typical updates: “Summer is good!”, “Life is great! I am recalling all the jokes about mothers-in-law”, “Oh those bureaucrats”). | Hatramin'ny desambra 2008 no nisiahany, 41 ny isam-baovao, ary tsy misy idiran'ny resaka politika ny maro amin'izy ireo (jereo ny sasany: “Tsara ny fahavaratra!”, “Mahafinaritra ny fiainana! nahatsiaro ny hatsikana rehetra mikasika ny rafozana aho”, “Oadray ireto mpiasa am-birao”). |
34 | This is definitely not the kind of stuff that threatens Kremlin. | Tsy misy zavatra tokony atahoran'i Kremlin mihitsy amin'izany rehetra izany. |
35 | […] His blog is also somewhat of a news hub: he has done an amazing job of keeping his followers in the loop as to what happens in Abkhazia and Georgia, the two regions that are not exactly in the center of media attention (even in Russia). | […] Famoaham-baovao goavana ihany koa ny bolongany: Mahatalanjona ny asa nataony hitazonany ny mpamaky azy aminn'y fitantarany izay mitranga any Abkhazia sy Georgia, faritra roa izay tsy manintona loatra ny media (eny fa na any Rosia aza). |
36 | He's definitely NOT the blogosphere's version of Anna Politkovskaia; it is his opinions and visibility - rather than his revelations - that have made him an important target. | TSY tahaka an'i Anna Politkovskaia izy eo amin'ny totolom-bolongana; ny heviny sy ny lazany - fa tsy izay tantarainy - no nahatonga azy ho lasibatra lehibe. |
37 | Thus, I think that the attackers' real goal was humiliation, not censorship (however, more on the censorship part at the very end). | Avy amin'izay no ieritreretako fa ny tanjon'ny mpanafika dia fampahamenarana fa tsy fanivanana (na izany aza tafiditra ihany ny resaka sivana). |
38 | A secondary goal was to generate awe-inducing headlines about Russia's cyberpower all over the Web; there is no better way to do it these days than to make Twitter inaccessible for a few hours. […] | Ny tanjona faharoa dia ny hivoahan'ny lohateny lehibe, miharo hagagana, mikasika ny tanjak'i Rosia an-tserasera manerana ny tranonkala iray manontolo; tsy misy fomba tsara hafahafa kooka hanehoana izany afa-tsy ny tsy fampandehanana ny Twitter mandritra ny ora vitsy. […] |
39 | Ostap Karmodi wrote (RUS, link via LJ user drugoi) that “the attackers” would have probably thought twice before doing what they did if only they had been capable of foreseeing the outcome of their attacks: | Ostap Karmodi no manoratra (RUS, rohin'ny mpampiasa LJ drugoi) fa tokony hieritreritra tsara ny “mpanafika” mialoha ny hanaovana zavatra tahaka ireny fa raha mba fantatr'izy ireny mialoha manko ny vokatry ny nataony: |
40 | […] The result of yesterday's attack is that cyxymu, so disliked by some hackers, has become known to the whole world. | Ny vokatry ny fanembatsembanana omaly dia lasa malaza manerantany i cyxymu, izay halan'ny jiolahy an-tserasera sasany koa. |
41 | The Spanish El Pais has written about him, and the French Liberation, and the German Spiegel, and the British Guardian, and the American Washington Post, and the Japanese Yomiuri. | Nanoratra ny momba azy avokoa na ny Espaniola El Pais, ny Frantsay Liberation, ny Alemana Spiegel, ny Anglisy Guardian, ny Amerikana Washington Post, ary ny Japoney Yomiuri. |
42 | In short, all the main papers of the world. | Izany hoe ny gazety malaza manerantany. |
43 | Some of them have even done short interviews with cyxymu. | y sasany amin'izy ireo aza moa dia niresadresaka fohifohy tamin'i cyxymu. |
44 | From now on, if a conflict between Russia and Georgia breaks out again, the world media will know who to talk to. | Manomboka izao raha vaky indray ny ady eo amin'i Rosia sy Georgia, dia ho fantatry ny gazety manerantany hoe amin'iza izy ireo no manatona. |
45 | From now on, cyxymu‘s opinion on Russian politics will be interesting to the whole world - the opinion of a person who caused a crash of a hundred million accounts is always interesting. | Manomboka izao dia hahaliana an'izao tontolo izao ny hevitr'i cyxymu momba ny politika Rosiana - hahaliana mandrakariva izany hevitr'olona niteraka fahasimbana fidirana mpikambana [na fanisana] (compte) vohikalan'olona anjatony arivoarivo izany. |
46 | The day before yesterday cyxymu was known to no more than ten thousand people. | Afak'omaly dia tsy nihoatra ny iray alina no nahalala an'i cyxymu. |
47 | Today he is known to - what's the audience of the world media? 500 million? | Androany dia fantatry ny olona mahatratra - firy moa ny isan'ny mpanaraka ny media manerantany? |
48 | A billion? And most of these people sympathize with him - people do tend to sympathize with victims of mass persecution. […] | 500 000 000? 1 000 000 000? Ary hirona hanakany aminy ny ankamaroan'izy ireo - tia mirona amin'ny iharan'ny fanenjehana manko ny olona. […] |
49 | Here is one of Evgeny Morozov's theories on who might be behind the attacks: | Eto indray misy petra-kevitr'i Evgeny Morozov amin'izay mety nihavian'ny fanafihana: |
50 | […] The amateurization of cyberwarfare has been one permanent feature of virtually all recent cyber-attacks that somehow implicated Russia; it may be part of a broader Kremlin effort to “crowdsource” its defenses and offenses to groups of nationalistic vigilantes, not just in cyberspace. | […] Iray amin'izay mahasarika ao amin'ny tontolon'ny virtoaly ny fampitiavana ny ady an-tserasera ary mahatafiditra an'i Rosia avokoa ny fanafihana an-tserasera rehetra faramparany teo; mety ho efa fomba fiasan'i Kremlin ny manapariaka na “crowdsource” ny fiarovany sy ny fanafihany amina vondrona nasionalista, tsy amin'ny sehatra an-tserasera irery ihany. |
51 | Thus, recent news reports suggest that Nashi, Kremlin's youth arm, will soon be recruiting up to 100,000 problematic teenagers to form ARMED militia units that would patrol the streets. | Misy moa ny vaovao mitatitra fa hanangona tanora manana olana 100 000 ny Nashi, sampan'ny tanoran'i Kremlin hanofana azy ireo ho milisy mitam-piadiana hanara-maso ny arabe. |
52 | It would make some sense if they also invest into units of “cyber-vigilantes” who would be patrolling cyberspace, particularly given the rising importance of the Internet in Russia's public life. […] | Mety hisy dikany raha hametraka “vondrona an-tserasera” izy ireo, indrindra moa fa miha-mahazo vahana eo amin'ny fiainana andavanandro ao Rosia ny aterineto. […] |
53 | And LJ user dolboeb felt, too, that “the recent initiative to create street ‘militia units' in Russia” and the idea to attack cyxymu‘s blogs could have originated from the same source. | Ary mahatsapa ihany koa ny mpampiasa LJ olboeb fa, mety ho loharano iray ihany no nihavian'ny “fanapahan-kevitra farany teo hanangana ‘vondrona milisy' an-dalambe eto Rosia” sy ny hevitra hanafihana ny bolongan'i cyxymu. |
54 | He wrote (RUS): | Nosoratany fa (RUS): |
55 | […] Indeed, why would the regime torture itself, trying to come up with some general anti-internet laws, the way the naive Kazakhs and the old-fashioned Chinese did, when a pack of patriotically-minded thugs is close at hand, ready to crash any service or resource [as soon as they are ordered to (or even without being ordered to)]. […] | […] Nahoana no hampijaly tena ny fitondrana, miezaka ny hametraka lalàna manenjika ny aterineto, tahaka ny nataon'ny Kazakhs tsotrabe sy ny Lamaody shinoa taloha, raha efa misy andian-jatovo mihevi-tena ho tia tanindrazana eo am-pelantanana, vonona ny hamotika [izay rehetra ibaikoana azy (na tsy ibaikoana azy akory koa aza)]. […] |
56 | LJ user drugoi pointed in a slightly different direction in this very short and sarcastic post (RUS): | Nametraka lahatsoratra maneso fohy dia fohy somary miova fitàna kely ny mpampiasa LJ drugoi (RUS): |
57 | A request | Fiangaviana |
58 | Comrade [officer], I've written a post about The Beatles. | Kamarady [manamboninahitra], Nanoratra lahatsoratra momba ny The Beatles aho. |
59 | Will you allow me to publish it? | Avelanareo hamoaka azy io ve aho? |
60 | There's not a single word about Georgia in it. | Tsy misy resaka momba an'i Georgia mihitsy ao. |
61 | Will you please turn off your hurdy-gurdy for five minutes? | Mba afaka mamono dimy minitra monja ny milina fanaraha-maso ve ianareo aza fady? |
62 | (The Beatles post (RUS) is here, by the way - it commemorates the 40th anniversary of the famous Abbey Road photo.) | (ato ny lahatsoratra momba an'i The Beatles (RUS) , fa eo ihany isika - fahatsiarovana ny tsingerintaona faha-40 ny sarin'ny lalàna malaza Abbey Road izy io.) |