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Re: CiSCO IOS 12.* source code stolen


From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy () knowtion net>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 09:14:18 +0100


Alexei Roudnev wrote:
Cisco source codes never were a top secret, many people around the
world had access to them (and I believe, it explains Cisco's
stability and success).

... and here is to hoping that Cisco don't try to use this incident, if it
gets coverage outside a narrow readership, as a marketing exercise to blame
coding error exploits on anyone but the company itself - unlike our friends
in Redmond.

Cisco have enough IPR to protect serious commercial exploitation of leaked
code in other ways.

Peter


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