Security & Hacking: Why Google Went Down, IP hijacking or oops

Also know as BGP hijacking, prefix hijacking or route hijacking, or woopsie in this case.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/how-an-indonesian-isp-took-down-the-mighty-google-for-30-minutes/

This is really interesting, a whole new subset of Internet stuff I need to study now, evidently this happens intentionally and maliciously on a regular basis.

Some Resources for further study, only the Wiki link is at non specialist level IMHO:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_hijacking
• http://www.nanog.org/mailinglist/mailarchives/
• http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/uknot