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.

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Telaneo 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	foobarian an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It could be incompetent malice.
	▲	rwz an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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.

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kps 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

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GuB-42 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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mjburgess 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability