[ChuckMcM]

"Netflix made us do it." Ok, I agree that is a bit too cynical.

If anyone recalls Anonymous threatening to 'take down the internet' by DDOSing DNS servers, who knew they could have done it much more simply by dumping 100K BGP paths into the network.

[madsushi]

It is relatively easy to trace who injected new BGP routes though, versus a DDoS from a botnet of machines that are difficult to link to an individual.

[ChuckMcM]

Very true, but all it takes is the 'right' compromised server and that seems to be quite achievable with APT types.