[nycbug-talk] Cisco oops....

pete wright pete
Wed May 19 09:12:58 EDT 2004


On May 19, 2004, at 9:07 AM, Mikel King wrote:

>
>
> Cisco Source Code Reportedly Stolen
> By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 
> <mailto:StevenVaughan-Nichols at ziffdavis.com>
> May 18, 2004
>
> **Updated:* The FBI is investigating the possible theft of source code 
> for Cisco's main networking device operating system. *
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1594322,00.asp
>
>
> So what are the chances of this worming it's way into Linux, and 
> possibly BSD? Think anyone would be dumb enough to... well you

i'd think pretty low, being opensource i would expect a wee bit more 
peer review would happen before code is merged into the source tree.  
esp. with the whole SCO fiasco going on with GNU/Linux right now...i'd 
be more worried if i was a large CISCO client right now, it looks like 
they yanked the code off an internal solaris machine, so who knows what 
other info they have.

-pete

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