The CloudFlare blog entry had a linkbait title, but the Gizmodo journo missed the point of the content (or bluntly, did not bother reading it at all). This is what I took away from the CF post:<p>1. The attack on SpamHaus "wouldn't cause a network-wide outage, but it could potentially cause regional problems."<p>2. The DDoSers were attacking IXes, which is apparently unusual<p>3. The attack had the potential to take out an IX, which would break the regional internet<p>4. The source of attack was "open DNS recursors" which have the potential to be leveraged to much greater effect, increasing the likeliness of (3).<p>Yeah, the CF blog entry should have been called "The DDoS That Almost Broke the <i>European</i> Internet". But the Gizmodo journo one-upped the linkbaiting by frothily screaming "LIAR" without bothering to read the meat of the content.