On January 14, 2026, global telnet traffic observed by GreyNoise sensors fell off a cliff. A 59% sustained reduction, eighteen ASNs going completely silent, five countries vanishing from our data entirely. Six days later, CVE-2026-24061 dropped. Coincidence is one explanation.

Silent data corruptions due to defective silicon cause erroneous program results. Yet nobody knows how severe and frequent the problem is, how much we need to invest in solving it, and who should pay the bill.