Reply to post: A fuckup is a fuckup, a hack's a hack

You won't guess where European mobile data was rerouted for two hours. Oh. You can. Yes, it was China Telecom

imanidiot Silver badge
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A fuckup is a fuckup, a hack's a hack

I have no doubt many of these incidents are just fuckups. "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately ascribed to stupidity". However, a fuckup this large requires either a special kind of stupid or malice and the latter starts being the more believable explanation. Generally though I have a hard time believing the problems caused by China or Russia are all (or partly) caused by malicious effort, and all the incidents coming from the US are entirely and purely accidental. I don't believe for a second the TLA's wouldn't use this sort of attack. --> Is that a Blackhawk I hear approaching?

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