Daily Kos: More On Monday's Internet Meltdown
“Everyone is acquainted with the misbehaviors at the individual level found within the internet’s open, distributed architecture: mailboxes full of spam, phishing attacks aimed at your financial information, and spyware are ubiquitous. Less well known are the vulnerabilities to the systems that transport traffic. This is on the minds of everyone involved in the operation of the internet’s core, as a global meltdown of internet routing was narrowly averted on Monday the 16th.”


