What I meant by "TOTALLY avoidable" is that "this particular plane
crash" has happened in the exact same way, for the exact same reasons,
over and over again.
Aviation learns from mistakes that don't generally recur in the exact
same way for the exact same reasons.
Aviation is regulated.
I am not normally supporting a heavy hand in regulation, but i think it is fair to say Noction and similar BGP optimizers are unsafe at any speed and the FTC or similar should ban them in the USA. They harm consumers and are a risk to national security / critical infrastructure
Noction and similar could have set basic defaults (no-export, only create /25 bogus routes to limit scope), but they have been clear that their greed to suck up traffic does not benefit from these defaults and they wont do it.
Tar and feather them. FTC, do your job.
FTC has done good work before
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