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Re: Cisco cover up

  • From: James Baldwin
  • Date: Wed Jul 27 16:57:27 2005 
On Jul 27, 2005, at 4:48 PM, J. Oquendo wrote:


On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Dan Hollis wrote:
This is looking like a complete PR disaster for cisco. They would have
been better off allowing the talk to take place, and actually fixing the
holes rather than wasting money on a small army of razorblade- equipped
censors.
Complete PR disaster? Maybe they're still working on the fix and didn't
want those on the blackhat scene to have a glimpse of how they intended on
fixing things. I wonder if this has exploit_foo_bar has anything to do
with their code being stolen earlier this year was it, or late last year.
Maybe for the geeks in you, it may be a PR disaster, but I doubt their
stock price will come down much. Oddly I wonder if those in gov are
watching closely to those who are running around shorting Cisco stock. Or
should that be: "sh0rt1ng c1sc0 [email protected]$"
Cisco had initially approved this talk. My understanding is that this has been fixed and no current IOS images were vulnerable to the techniques he was describing. ISS, Lynn, and Cisco had been working together for months on this issue before the talk.

This had _nothing_ to do with the source code that was stolen. I have dealt with Lynn professionally on many occasions and he has shown himself to have more than a fair share of integrity. It is uncalled for to take to disparate events and place them together in a way which smudges the name of a respected researcher.