Never assume malicious intent when incompetence.
I have multiple devices that queries their update server every 15 seconds, which all shows up as the top 10 queried domain in my network.
Never assume malicious intent when incompetence.
I have multiple devices that queries their update server every 15 seconds, which all shows up as the top 10 queried domain in my network.
> Never assume malicious intent when incompetence.
I like Hanlon's Razor, but I think sometimes people will use it to fully dismiss the idea of someone being evil because they're stupid, when in reality plenty of people are capable of being both.
It's in Kerig's interest to be evil in this case. There's money to be made in malice. There's good reason to assume this isn't incompetence.
It could be incompetent malice.
I'm sure they could've collected the same data they're collecting with 0.1% of the traffic. This particular case seems to be greed AND incompetence.
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
There is no way it is not incompetence.
Considering the computing power of these kinds of devices, it is most likely stuck inside an infinite loop sending garbage at full speed, there is not enough power to process that much volume in any maliciously useful way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability
> Never assume malicious intent when incompetence.
No, fuck this lazy line of thinking. If the outcome is the same they then it doesn't matter.