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Re:AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1 by jamespo on Thursday May 03, 2018 @07:53AM (#16985084)
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
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Re:AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1 by jjoonathan on Thursday May 03, 2018 @10:10AM (#16986175)
Hanlon's razor is dangerous. "Playing stupid" and its adult cousin "plausible deniability" trivially exploit the razor under adversarial conditions.

That said, we agree on the probable cause of this particular issue.

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Re:AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1 by paulie_a on Thursday May 03, 2018 @08:01AM (#16985132)
Except when it is AT&T. Then you can just assume it was more malicious than you even originally thought
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Re:AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1 by jdironman on Thursday May 03, 2018 @08:40AM (#16985402)
Equal parts malice and stupidity.
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Re:AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1 by Aissen on Thursday May 03, 2018 @08:14AM (#16985232)
It's stupidity, then malice as a cover-up.
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Re:AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1 by rando444 on Thursday May 03, 2018 @08:24AM (#16985304)
No, that's not what malice means.

Unless you're actually trying to say that AT&T has a grudge against Cloudflare and are only doing this to harm their company.

This is something more like negligence or gross negligence.

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Re:AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1 by arbitrage on Thursday May 03, 2018 @12:35PM (#16987466)
> only doing this to harm their company

That's not wholly unthinkable as far as AT&T is concerned. They're historically a bad player.

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