[70461] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CiSCO IOS 12.* source code stolen
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Call)
Sun May 16 05:03:34 2004
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 01:02:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Call <scall@devolution.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20040516085409.74159.qmail@web80513.mail.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Henry Linneweh wrote:
>
> You do not have to steal the code, you can buy a cisco
> router from an equipment reseller and have all the
> access you want.....
>
I wasn't aware you got a source license when you purchased Cisco gear. I
need to have a talk with my reseller...
smart-assitude aside, I do hope fallout is minimal and easily worked
around. Hopefully even the script kiddies and other black hats understand
that undermining the infrasture of the 'net would make all of their DDOS
and SPAM zombies unusable.
-S
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