Cisco: Source code theft does not increase risk

Cisco: Source code theft does not increase risk
Matthew Fordahl, The Associated Press 2004-05-21

The publication of some of Cisco Systems Inc.'s proprietary software blueprints does not create an increased security risk to the equipment that powers much of the Internet, the company said Friday.

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Cisco: Source code theft does not increase risk 2004-05-24
Anonymous

If Cisco says so then it must be true! Malicious black hat hackers certainly could not use source code that has been kept secret for so long to discover and learn more ways to hack Cisco systems. Cisco has software developers that never make mistakes that could cause security issues in their software so there is zero chance there are any now.

All the security alerts from cisco must have just have been drills. They were not real. A quick search turned up this as the number 1 hit on google.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sn-20040326-exploits.shtml

There is no way the source code could be used against cisco. They are god like.

Blah... blah blah. More PR coverup IMHO.

That is where proprietary systems fail... They use obscurity(nobody has the source but them), but the big security risk is that if that code does become public(MS, Cisco, etc have proven that source can not be reasonably contained) then everyone has to hope and pray that there are not any major security holes in the software that was leaked.

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