[Lewton]

> This is the worse version of a technical failure. Admitting a technical failure would therefore be automatically better then a hack.

I really doubt that's the way the general public views this (and they're the ones that matter when it comes to what companies are willing to admit)

If they say they had a technical error the perception would be that it's their fault.

If they say that they've been hacked the perception would be that it's because someone else did something bad, so they're the victims.

I think this is terrible, but I fear that it's the truth

[aluhut]

Actually most of the "general public" complain about the router. The rest complains about the general incompetence of the former government institution that failed them again (20years of them going public recently. Was a huge scam for the "general public"). But of course, there is still the Querfront fraction who doesn't want this to be just another Russia hack.

If you'd come up to them and gave them a technical reason they don't even understand, it couldn't be worse. This is Germany here. People do have a genetically build in respect for people who talk a version of the language they don't comprehend since they must be a authority.