It also means the internet is vulnerable to simple sysadmin errors. For eg. the only time Google went down world-wide was a BGP error: http://tech.slashdot.org

It also means the internet is vulnerable to simple sysadmin errors. For eg. the only time Google went down world-wide was a BGP error: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/11/06/2040226/why-google-went-offline-today http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/11/06/2040226/why-google-w... Syria being taken offline was also via BGP http://www.cert.at/services/blog/20121129184048-616.html http://www.cert.at/services/blog/20121129184048-616.html