Attacks on lone blogger echo across Web
Saturday, August 8, 2009
NEW YORK -- The outage that knocked Twitter offline for hours was traced to an attack on a lone blogger in the former Soviet republic of Georgia -- but the collateral damage that left millions around the world tweetless showed just how much havoc an isolated cyberdispute can cause.
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