From YouTube Till Telecom

So, that didn’t last long, this ban on YouTube. The funniest thing about this was how the Pakistani software engineers were able to mess up YouTube globally without even knowing what they were doing or what their actions might have beget. You might well imagine the surprise those people up there at YouTube must have got when they saw that some Telecom guy from Pakistan had ended up bringing the site down without even knowing what he was actually doing. What that one Pakistani was able to pull off was something that no other hacker had even thought about doing. It was by sheer stupidity and dumb luck of the blonde (who in this case turns out to be a Pakistani brunette, a man, and not just dumb but completely deaf, blind, armless, legless, and bald as well) that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority was able to bring YouTube down globally for a few hours. I am not sure of the technical details of how he were able to do that but some of my developer friends have told me that this kind of a cyber attack is unheard of simply because it is unthinkable that someone would even try this kind of a hijack. You ever hear of that saying about grabbing your nose in different ways, where you can either grab the nose simply by pinching it with your right arm in front of your face or you can pinch it by taking your right arm, twisting it around from the back of your head and holding your nose from the left side of your face? Basically, this means that there is a simple way of doing things and a roundabout way, which no one really does because it is just too awkward. In this case, Pakistan Telecom did the awkward part, holding the nose from the wrong side, only this time, instead of the nose they got the kidney.