[82688] in North American Network Operators' Group
Cisco cover up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J. Oquendo)
Wed Jul 27 16:49:22 2005
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:48:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: "J. Oquendo" <sil@politrix.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Dan Hollis wrote:
>
> 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
Complete PR disaster? Maybe they're still working on the fix and didn't
want those on the blackhat scene to have a glimpse of how they intended on
fixing things. I wonder if this has exploit_foo_bar has anything to do
with their code being stolen earlier this year was it, or late last year.
Maybe for the geeks in you, it may be a PR disaster, but I doubt their
stock price will come down much. Oddly I wonder if those in gov are
watching closely to those who are running around shorting Cisco stock. Or
should that be: "sh0rt1ng c1sc0 st0ck!@$"
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