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More on Last Year's Cisco Source Code Theft

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the worst-of-both-worlds dept.

grazzy writes "The New York Times has a story about last year's theft of Cisco source code: The incident seemed alarming enough: a breach of a Cisco Systems network in which an intruder seized programming instructions for many of the computers that control the flow of the Internet. "

7 of 266 comments (clear)

  1. But on 24 they said cisco networks were by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    self defending?????

  2. Re:Question for an expert... by CaymanIslandCarpedie · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, that just makes it more secure sense more eyes will be looking at it ;-)

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  3. Re:Did they steal the editor too? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Most amusing part to me is that the title was corrected but it still has "Years" instead of "Year's".

  4. Re:[OT] Re:Did they steal the editor too? by unitron · · Score: 5, Funny
    Excuse me, did you say Gemini went to the arcade?

    Proper grammer is admirable, but it's no substitute for careful enunciation.

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  5. Re:Thef by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny
    What else are they doing?
    Applying massive amounts of negative mod-points to posts criticising Slashdot Editors... See you at (-1 Troll), baby).
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  6. not just Cisco! by Heisenbug · · Score: 4, Funny

    a breach of a Cisco Systems network in which an intruder seized programming instructions for many of the computers that control the flow of the Internet.

    Just wait until these guys see apache.org ...

  7. Re:Timing.. by gad_zuki! · · Score: 5, Funny

    >And people wonder why I don't watch television.

    So this vision of 24 came to you in a fever dream then?