Re: 600,000 routers bricked

["John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

It appears that Robert Jacobs <rjacobs () pslightwave com> said:
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> If you do a bit more digging the ISP is not Lumen ... It is a well known ISP 

It's Windstream.

and I recall reading about this
> outage when it happened.  I don’t know if indeed this was a botched attempt to gather a bot network or like
> some said an intentional act to get attention.  

Nobody else knows either.  For me the most interesting question is where did Windstream get
600,000 replacement routers and how long did it take.  The original attack was three days.