nanog mailing list archives

Re: CiSCO IOS 12.* source code stolen


From: Todd Vierling <tv () duh org>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 10:40:45 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 16 May 2004, Peter Galbavy 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.

Heh.

Might make for a good peer review, though.  At least CSCO manages to put out
fixes after an exploit is released; MSFT tends to deny existence of the bug
for up to months before releasing a fix.  8-)

-- 
-- Todd Vierling <tv () duh org> <tv () pobox com>


Current thread: