Re:AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1
by sjwright on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @09:08PM
(#16982559)
Having it seem like a bug would be an effective way to block it intentionally. The timing of such an unusual regression is suspicious. The fact that 1.0.0.1 is also blocked is also suspicious.
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Re:AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1
by mortenjorck on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @09:44PM
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A conspiratorial Hanlon's corollary: The most effective malice is that which can be ascribed to incompetence.
Re:AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1
by azernik on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @10:34PM
(#16982948)
Have you seen the Underhanded C Contest? http://www.underhanded-c.org/_page_id_5.html
"Bugs are worth more points if, once discovered, they are plausibly deniable as an innocent programming error."
Re:AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1
by sjwright on Thursday May 03, 2018 @09:29PM
(#16991518)
Genuinely brilliant.
Re:AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1
by brownbat on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @09:48PM
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> Having it seem like a bug would be an effective way to block it intentionally.
Just like how only the true messiah denies his divinity, it doesn't give innocent bugs much of a chance.
In fact, now we can show that all bugs are suspicious, with apologies to the interesting number paradox:
The least intentional looking bug is the most effectively hidden, and therefore should probably be suspected of being intentional. Since it's now suspect, it's longer the least intentional looking bug, so the next least suspicious bug suddenly deserves a bit more scrutiny, and so on.