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Daily Debrief: Bringing war online
Created: 08/13/2008
Video description: In Wednesday's edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET's Kara Tsuboi and Robert Vamosi discuss the latest exchange of cyberattacks between warring countries Russia and Georgia. As Vamosi points out, there's been a handful of such attacks over the last decade: during the Kosovo conflict in the late '90s, between Russia and other former Soviet nations, and even during the 2002 Winter Olympics.

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