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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
by godzillabrennus 7y ago
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
- peteradio 7y agoThis rule is over applied. If someone doesn't hold the door for you then don't assume they did it out of malice. That would be an appropriate use of this rule. Applying it in cases where there are known and obvious instances of malice doesn't make sense.
- Bluecobra 7y agoAgreed. It’s remarkably easy to screw up BGP by misconfiguration by changing (or deleting) a route map or prefix list. There’s over 800K autonomous systems participating in BGP now, so I’m certain mistakes happen all the time but don’t get reported.
- kps 7y ago“Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is an enemy action.”
- OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y agoYou should go read the nanog-l archives and see how often this happens.