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Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Thu Jul 28 16:16:35 2005

Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:37:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Jason Frisvold <xenophage0@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>,
	"Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <924f29280507280632e548d66@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Jason Frisvold wrote:
> On 7/27/05, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu> wrote:
> > Cisco's response thus far:
> >    http://www.cisco.com/en/US/about/security/intelligence/MySDN_CiscoIOS.html
> More fuel on the fire...  Cisco and ISS are suing Lynn now...
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39211011,00.htm 

Not the first time Cisco has had a highly questionable attitude toward 
security issues, even recently: http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382
(cisco, lawyers, and patents).

Is this the start of a new pattern of behavior for cisco, or just more of 
the same?

-Dan


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