They crashed the Internet!

[<rms () computerbytesman com>]

Looks like someone was able to crash the Internet.  Or at least a pretty big
chunk of it.  Boat anchors appear to be more potent weapons however than
DDoS software:

   Internet failure hits two continents
   http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/31/dubai.outage/index.html

Richard

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