This is amazing and unbelievable. When Pakistan decided to block youtube this past week because of it contains conten
t it deemed offensive [in particular the infamous cartoons of the Prophet], it ended up blocking youtube from the entire world. One of its ISPs rerouted youtube into a ‘black hole’. It amounted to a denial of service attack – albeit unintentional.
Here is a technical analysis of how this happened link
What does this tell us about the status of the internet? that it is so fragile, it is scary.