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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

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.

mortenjorck 9y ago
A conspiratorial Hanlon's corollary: The most effective malice is that which can be ascribed to incompetence.
- azernik 9y ago
  Have you seen the Underhanded C Contest? http://www.underhanded-c.org/_page_id_5.html 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."
- sjwright 9y ago
  Genuinely brilliant.
brownbat 9y ago
> 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.
- sjwright 9y ago
  That's not my point. It's suspicious because of its specificity and timing; its bug-like presentation isn't evidence either way.