Should We Stop Trusting Trust?

As Internet disruptions go, the 24 February incident that blocked access to YouTube for two hours wasn´t particularly disastrous in economic terms. It wasn´t even particularly unique - within weeks, another IP address hijacking blacked out service provider Africa Online Kenya for more than 22 hours. However, YouTube´s global visibility and the context in which it was blocked by a state-operated telecommunications provider acting as a censor combined to greatly increase worldwide attention on interdomain routing and the vulnerabilities inherent in routing protocols that can cripple the network.