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Re: New cisco exploit published in the media today

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Mar 29 19:52:27 2004

To: Ariel Biener <ariel@fireball.tau.ac.il>
Cc: Scott Call <scall@devolution.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:37:29 +0200."
             <Pine.LNX.4.33_heb2.09.0403300033440.17357-100000@fireball.tau.ac.il> 
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:50:46 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:37:29 +0200, Ariel Biener said:

> I perfectly understand the need to make public the availability of this
> new cracking tool, but I do not understand why there was no mention of
> the fact it exploits bugs that are 1.5-3 years old, which would have put
> matters in the proper perspective, instead of trying to create commotion
> as if some immediate danger was hanging above our enterprise LANs.

Compare the potential eyeball count:

"Exploit for 3 year old hole available"

"Death of Internet Predicted. MPEGs at 11 (10:30 in Newfoundland)".

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