> I felt back then that this community had a very unhealthy relationship with the quality of their software and the work of security researchers.
I suspect a Network Operators mailing list is going to be full of people trying to keep production up, with the tools they've got, rather than the tools they'd like. Thinking the software quality on the routers they're using are dogshit is probably just called "Monday" and thinking their peers' routers are even worse is called "Tuesday".
I can understand they don't appreciate "research" done on production systems that might cause issues when they already know their equipment sucks.
I suspect a Network Operators mailing list is going to be full of people trying to keep production up, with the tools they've got, rather than the tools they'd like. Thinking the software quality on the routers they're using are dogshit is probably just called "Monday" and thinking their peers' routers are even worse is called "Tuesday".
I can understand they don't appreciate "research" done on production systems that might cause issues when they already know their equipment sucks.