Akamai is many many caching devices with fancy routing (massive oversimplification). Announcing routes incorrectly, on purpose, or maliciously, can cause entire

Akamai is many many caching devices with fancy routing (massive oversimplification). Announcing routes incorrectly, on purpose, or maliciously, can cause entire swaths of the internet or entire countries to go offline. It is sometimes called route poisoning or ip hijacking A few examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_hijacking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_hijacking https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/BGP+multiple+banking+addresses+hijacked/16249 https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/BGP+multiple+banking+addre... http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/repeated-attacks-hijack-huge-chunks-of-internet-traffic-researchers-warn/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/repeated-attacks-hij... etc, etc.