[82687] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Wed Jul 27 16:41:35 2005
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:41:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: hannigan@verisign.com, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050727.130947.8034.152723@webmail32.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> For what ot's worth, this story is running in the
> popular trade press:
>
> "Cisco nixes conference session on hacking IOS router code"
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/072705-cisco-ios.html
This is looking like a complete PR disaster for cisco. They would have
been better off allowing the talk to take place, and actually fixing the
holes rather than wasting money on a small army of razorblade-equipped
censors.
-Dan
