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Possible Cisco Source Code Theft

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gotta-hate-when-that-happens dept.

OmegaBlac writes "According to Ars Technica, a Russian security site is claiming that Cisco's corporate network was comprimised and about 800MB of Cisco's source code for IOS Operating System version 12.3 was stolen. I guess Cisco forgot to implement their own Self Defending Network solutions."

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  1. Re:WARNING copyrighted source samples ahead! by cide1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, I'd like to believe you, but I've seen people get away with murder in source code before. Open source coders worry a lot more about things like indentation, and filenames that make sense. In closed source shops, a lot of times what is quickly coded as a prototype becomes the shipping product, and things like indent cant be used because it breaks diffs. As much as I'd like to look with my own eyes, this sounds like one of the things it would be best if I just ignored it.

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