That can easily backfire. I remember the last time this happened people pointed to an ITR page showing that a router in Iran being inaccessible as evidence that all of Iran was offline and that this could only mean that a US invasion was imminent. Meanwhile, if you actually went to the domain under which that router sat, you'd find The Iranian University of Science & Technology (http://www.iust.ac.ir/), up the whole time.

I think people will see doom and gloom wherever they want to see it.