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

  • From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist
  • Date: Wed Apr 21 01:44:37 2004

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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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