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There is nothing professional about avoiding a topic for the sake of appearances. Level3 put out details knowing others in the industry will discuss and speculate based on that information. They could have witheld details such as flowspec and edge routers bouncing but they did not, it's perfectly professional to discuss speculative details of someone elses outage that affected your customers based on details they chose to make public.

In infosec for example, it's extremely common to speculate about a vulnerability based on details in the CVE. Entire news articles are based on such speculation. Like I said, you are giving too much weight to optics and appearances. I would like to see anyone actually at Level3 complain about this post.