[luso_brazilian]

The sad state of the internet and the world wide web, from a decentralized network envisioned to withstand nuclear armageddon [1] to a series of services so intertwined and full of single points of failure that a focused attack can take cause worldwide outages and disrupt communications everywhere.

[1] http://www.rand.org/about/history/baran.html

[pjf]

The physical Internet is no more better: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~pb/tubes_final.pdf