The writer, Evgeny Morozov, makes it clear that he didn't enlist for ideological reasons, but rather out of curiosity to see just how easy it is to launch (or help launch) a cyber attack. The answer is it's frighteningly easy, it took Evgeny less than five minutes to join the fight.
The article also shows how attacks blamed on the Kremlin as part of a cyber warfare strategy, in reality instead are the work of patriotically, or ideologically motivated computer geeks (or in Evgeny's case, that of a curious writer). Last year Estonia also accused Moscow of launching a cyber attack against its government and business websites, attacks that in reality turned out to be the work of a single Estonian-born, ethnic-Russian teen.
It also makes you wonder if a loose collection of hackers can cause such chaos for a nation's computer infrastructure, what a nation like China - which is rumored to have an entire cyber warfare unit within their military - could cause.
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