On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 1:40 PM Matt Erculiani <merculi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's important to note though that if you quietly (or even publicly) patch > 600k devices to fix a bug, nobody cares. Plus, doing so is still a crime: > it's 600k instances of accessing a computer system without permission. It's > also far, FAR easier to write a stream of 0s to the bootloader than it is to > decompile and debug bad firmware. >
Lumen USED TO HAVE a walled-garden they dropped people into when their links/network ran amok.. at least in legacy-qwest/century-link consumer connectivity situations. maybe that's gone now? maybe the part of the affected network for this incident didn't have that capability?