Russian youth movement activist admits to 2007 hacker attack on Estonia websites
Interfax
Moscow, 12 March: A commissar of the Nashi youth movement, Konstantin Goloskokov, has said that he personally took part in an attack on the websites of Estonian government structures in spring 2007.
"This was done by me, my acquaintances and friends - an initiative group. But it was not a hacker attack but a classical action of civil disobedience," Goloskokov told Interfax on Thursday (12 March).
According to Goloskokov, he and his associates decided to organize an action against Estonian government websites in protest against the relocation of the (WWII) memorial to Soviet soldiers in Tallinn and violation of rights of the Russian-speaking population.
"That was a private initiative, in which people who are even not members of the Nashi movement took part," Goloskokov said.
"That was not a DDoS attack since this kind of attack means using virus software. We did not use virus software," he added.
"All what we did was making multiple queries to Estonian servers. There were mass visits to the websites with the use of our social networks. We used the Estonian websites in line with their function - they have been made for people to visit them, so we visited them. We did nothing illegal," Goloskokov said.
He warned that similar "actions of social disobedience" could be repeated if the Estonian authorities violate the rights of ethnic Russians. "The future belongs to actions in the Internet. Naturally, we will continue to use them if the situation with the observance of the rights of the Russian population in the Baltic states does not change," he added.
Asked why his attention was not drawn by the removal of the monument and remains of Soviet pilots, heroes of the Great Patriotic War, from Moscow Region's town of Khimki to Novoluzhinskoye cemetery in spring 2007, Goloskokov said: "I remember perfectly well which members of the public were upset (by the relocation of the Khimki memorial) - the opposition mass media."
"That relocation of the memorial (in Khimki) had been agreed with veteran organizations and the public. It was not an act of global spiritual provocation as the relocation of the memorial in Estonia," he added. (Passage omitted).
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