Re: 600,000 routers bricked

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 1:40 PM Matt Erculiani <merculiani () 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?