[70459] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CiSCO IOS 12.* source code stolen
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Sun May 16 04:14:54 2004
From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 09:14:18 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Alexei Roudnev wrote:
> Cisco source codes never were a top secret, many people around the
> world had access to them (and I believe, it explains Cisco's
> stability and success).
... and here is to hoping that Cisco don't try to use this incident, if it
gets coverage outside a narrow readership, as a marketing exercise to blame
coding error exploits on anyone but the company itself - unlike our friends
in Redmond.
Cisco have enough IPR to protect serious commercial exploitation of leaked
code in other ways.
Peter
