If that's not malice, then perhaps it's a very, very advanced form of stupidity.
Grey's law: Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. -- TTFN, patrick
On May 22, 2026, at 13:44, me via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Tom,
Thanks for your perspective. I do appreciate the Hanlon's Razor point — it's a good general principle.
However, in this case, the same ASN also: - Manually injected China Telecom's IPv6 backbone (`240e::/20`) into its BIRD config on May 1 - Submitted a new ASN (`AS402333`) on May 16, the day of the leak - Maintains a global geofeed that still lists a Shanghai node as of May 22
If that's not malice, then perhaps it's a very, very advanced form of stupidity.
Either way, the evidence is archived.
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