I have the feeling that any day now I’m gonna wake up in the morning and I’ll find out that there just isn’t internet anymore because somebody did something from a hotel room in the middle of nowhere with a raspberry pi connected to a wifi hotspot of a nearby coffee shop.
Reminds me of the dorms in college where the internet would get messed up because someone would plug in a random router from home that would hand out junk dhcp ip addresses. It's like that but for the whole world.
A significant amount of stuff is indeed held up by hopes and prayers [0], but by design, the internet was built to be robust [1]. In this case the scope was limited to .mobi.
