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Not really relevant to this current outage, no. But someone could potentially totally take advantage of all the noise in the current BGP route table to pull off a route hijack while NOC people have their eyes elsewhere...

Sometimes it's accidental. If you downvote by accident, you can't reverse it.

The downvotes are probably because you didn't explain why you think it's relevant, and therefore didn't actually contribute to the discussion.

Sorry I'm not well versed in BGP (or bitcoin for that matter). I was hoping for someone with more domain knowledge to confirm or set me straight. Probably wasn't very clear by my terse initial comment.

How DOES downvoting work? All I see are upward triangles, if that has anything to do with it at all. How much more hidden functionality is there for “privileged members”? And how do you join the club?

Downvotes require a karma threshold (of 500 IIRC).

BTW, whatever you do don't overuse the 'flag' feature on stories as it seems when this is revoked it is permanent! I lost mine when trying to encourage news other than the passing of Steve Jobs.