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Re: Massive stupidity (Was: Re: TCP vulnerability)


From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis () kurtis pp se>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 07:42:43 +0200


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On 2004-04-20, at 23.09, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

 but the massive amount of confusion,
rumor, and worry which the major router vendors (Cisco and Juniper)
created by essentially rediscovering the god damn spec and then telling
only their major customers about so that only rumors could filter down 
to
the rest of the industry is absolutely pathetic. If you have a support
contract and were not told about this "attack" (if you could call it 
that)
or were blatantly misinformed as many people seem to have been, you 
should
demand to know why you didn't receive better treatment.

this was to the best of my knowledge not handled by Cisco and Juniper 
and also to the best of my knowledge they did not pre-warn any 
customer. But I might be mistaken.

- - kurtis -

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