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Arrest in Cisco Code Theft
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."
to be younger people who get arrested for these kind of acts. I'm reffering to things such as code theft/release, warez, writing worms, viruses, etc. Is it because the the younger ones aren't as bright and therefor don't cover their tracks as well? Or is it because as you get older, the appeal of these kind of things drops? A combination of both? Something else? I would have to assume it's a combination of both, but I have no idea.
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
I've got and have had IOS 11.3 source sitting here for about two years. I kept notes on the dork who gave it to me. I contacted Cisco asset recovery, whom I had worked with before, and they got me to the IP guys. I've been waiting and waiting to be interviewed and nothing happens
I am very easy to get along with, but I don't have time to waste being nice to people who are being stupid. -Theo
I don't see how this is going to keep people from hacking Cisco products. The only difference here is the code was "published". From what I have been told the code has been available in the "warez" community for years.
"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.
-Phixx
ungggghhhh