Pakistan ISPs, Routing, and YouTube
Here’s a link to the article I mentioned today in class, which is related to the material that we covered on Friday: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/02/pakistan_censorship_order_take.html (from The Washington Post).
Here’s a quote from the article:
So, what happened? From everything I’ve read and heard, the YouTube situation appears to have been due to an innocent — if inept — mix-up, which allowed Pakistan’s ISPs to effectively announce to the world that its Internet addresses were the authoritative home of YouTube.com, and for about an hour or so, most of the rest of the world’s ISPs incorporated those updated directions as gospel.