Yes see:
 http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/02/pakistan_censorship_order_take.html?nav=rss_blog
and
 http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9878655-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
and
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7262071.stm

  The first link is the best one...

  And the ugly saga of ICANN's ill managed and incompatant
organs continues unabated and by ICANN direct policy decision
leadership...

Jean Armour Polly wrote:

Over the weekend, the Pakistan Telecom Authority ordered Pakistan's ISPs to block YouTube. The ISPs shared BGP  (Border gateway protocol) data, which advertised routes to nowhere for YouTube. But, the routes were "accidentally" shared with a company in Hong Kong. Because the routes were very concise, and because no one bothered to see if they were accurate, routers all over accepted the routes as the best path to YouTube. The following article gives more information, including the suggestion that secure BGP be adopted.http://www.macworld.com/article/132256/2008/02/networking.html This articlehttp://www.9wsyr.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3786d02a-34e5-4f04-ad93-ce3a039f3eed&rss=112provides more information, including this quote:"Misrouting occurs every year or so among the world's Internet carriers, usually as a result of typos or other errors, Underwood said. In a more severe example, a Turkish telecom provider in 2004 started advertising that it was the best route to all of the Internet, causing widespread outages for many Web sites over several hours.

"Nobody ran any viruses or worms or malicious code. This is just the way the Internet works. And it's not very secure or reliable," Underwood said, adding that there is no real solution to the problem on the table.

While most route hijacking is unintentional, some Yahoo networks were apparently taken over a few years ago to distribute spam."To be honest, there's not a single thing preventing this from happening to E-Trade, or Bank of America, or the FBI, or the White House, or the Clinton campaign," Underwood said. "I think it's a useful moment for people to decide just how important it is that we fix problems like this." How stable is the Internet, anyway? Perhaps ALAC would like to discuss.  Jean Armour Polly

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