Diligent readers may remember that I have, at times, hinted about how fundamentally flawed the Internet is. And the fact that an attacker with sufficient knowledge could do some very devastating damage, even without one of those fancy botnets. It's a conversation we normally have behind closed doors at security conferences, or other confabs, and don't talk much about it openly because there's not a damn thing we can really do about these problems.
The Internet, when it was built, was all about Availability, and not much at all about the other 2 fundamental principles of security, Confidentiality and Integrity. And...