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The Internet was designed to withstand damage due to nuclear warfare and other external disruptions. It apparently was not designed to reliably withstand serious attacks of malicious third parties controlling some segments of it.

Time to adapt.

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The Internet certainly was; HTTP and DNS, not so much.

Note how it's not TCP/IP failing here.

You can make tcp/ip fail as well, just like Pakistan did back in 2008: http://www.renesys.com/2008/02/pakistan-hijacks-youtube-1/

External disruption != internal disruption

Also, infrastructural damage (like caused by a nuke) != ongoing activities by sentient and adapting enemy.

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