The Great YouTube Outage of 2008

Ars Technica has a fairly succinct explanation of how insecure routing redirected YouTube to a network “black hole” in Pakistan yesterday. Lately I have been ranting about network warfare and the importance of securing vital assets. I do not believe that YouTube is a vital asset, but it is highly visible. Hopefully, events like this will raise awareness of security issues.

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