YouTube IP Hijacking

Sun Feb 24 21:27:58 UTC 2008

Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
> Clearly, they are incensed by youtube content, so what makes anyone
> think that they would not be trying to engage in a case of Cyber-Jihad?

Because this usually doesn't work very well, is very evident, and easily 
fixed? Even on a sleepy Sunday, it took 3491 about two hours to 
filter/turn down 17557 and remove the problem. I bet most of their peers 
say that's too slow, however :-)

> I generally don't assume malice when mere incompetence will suffice, but
> in the case of the Islamic world, they've proved themselves malicious
> towards the non-Islamic world often, and violently, enough, that I don't
> believe they deserve that presumption of innocence any more.

I think your perspective is a little off.