Re: [NANOG] IOS rootkits

["Dr. J Swift" <fdiscsplat () gmail com>]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 6:49 PM, n3td3v <xploitable () gmail com> wrote:
> How can you say the cyber world is unlikely to end when Cisco is the
> most widely used router on the internet today? Everyone uses Cisco,
> all the ISP's and everyone.
>
> Even if the in the know guys secure their routers, there is still a
> hell of a lot of people who won't and a rootkit for Cisco will damage
> the internet, e-commerce and government!!!

Mr. Wallace,

You seem to be crafting a highly skilled act of social engineering.
Its meaning and intent must have extensive global reach.  Why are you
"talking up" this vulnerability to the extent that you are?  I wonder
after reading this email of yours from two years past.

* From: xploitable at gmail.com (n3td3v)
* Subject: [Full-disclosure] Securityfocus fall for n3td3v agenda to
show up the security company
* Date: Fri Jul 28 16:16:15 2006
* The only worm ever to appear with XSS was a harmless Myspace worm, yet
* both companies are saying things are critical and that the internet is
* rife with wormable XSS flaws, just to advertise to any would-be
* attacker who didn't know, to make sure they know now.
*
* There wasn't originally a threat in reality, but you can be sure
* they've just created a threat by talking up the attack vector of XSS
* worms on social network sites.

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