I bet we will not hear too much in the media about the outages.
here come the conspiracy theories..... yawn....
The simple fact of the matter is that you will not hear too much in the media because the journos are simply not interested in the nitty gritty one they've milked the spin and hyped-up the story enough they'll just let it go.
Overall I agree that the way the internet works probably has to change, but to think that authentication will save the world is a bit to simplistic. The problems with the internet go much deeper than that.