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Arrest in Cisco Code Theft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hack-and-roll dept.

Kozar_The_Malignant writes "The BBC is reporting that an arrest has been made in the case of the stolen Cisco code that was posted to the internet last May. Approximately 800 MB was posted to a Russian security website. No name has been released and details are rather thin."

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  1. Re:Open Source by Deanalator · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Heaven forbid that Cisco actually allow this and join the open source movement...we certainly wouldn't want their stuff to get any better. (*insert sarcasm here*)"

    It might interest you to know that cisco is one of the top contributers (of both hardware, and money) to the Open Source Development Labs.

    Also even if cisco did release the code for its routers, it's architecture is so specialized that you need quite expensive machinery to even get it compiled, so it wouldn't enjoy the massive development base that linux has.

  2. Re:napalm smells like victory by teko_teko · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you actually read the article, you'll find out that the person arrested was a British.