It looks like perhaps it was a myth.
According to root-servers.org:

There are multiple documented instances of middleboxes interfering with root server system traffic. However, we believe this is the first documented case where routes to root server prefixes were hijacked using BGP.

Bummer.

Edit: This article describes an attack this year. I was thinking of an older one.

a BGP highjack of one of the root DNS servers (I have the letter L in my head for some reason).
The story was that whoever took it kept responding the same as the real one and noone noticed for days. How anyone could get away with this is beyond me & it stinks of conspiracy theory but there was a very convincing looking article about it somewhere.

no u

Sounds like fun.

Hey, the fluffer lost two fingers on that job.

https://xkcd.com/37/

What benefit do they get from requiring it? Surely mandating something like that can only filter the pool of talent available.

Snow in my asshole? In this economy??

And it goes up and down at a certain gaydence.

My heart says no but the microplastics in my brain say glifos ate.

TBF you can’t get more steady than dead.

and thus was the empire forged

How many of them get incinerated? I know most large hospitals near me do that but do they take the waste from the gazillion small labs & diagnostics places?

Upvote for self awareness.

Theres a yo’ mama joke in there somewhere.