[70463] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CiSCO IOS 12.* source code stolen
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Sun May 16 10:42:00 2004
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 10:40:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: Peter Galbavy <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <004801c43b1d$c95c5b60$51e0a8c0@sonylaptop>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Peter Galbavy 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.
Heh.
Might make for a good peer review, though. At least CSCO manages to put out
fixes after an exploit is released; MSFT tends to deny existence of the bug
for up to months before releasing a fix. 8-)
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>
