Comments on: Cisco code leak http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1521 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1521/comment-page-1#comment-2095 Reader's Write Mon, 24 May 2004 23:25:49 +0000 #comment-2095 >>"If you have the Windows source code, you can build it on your PC at home, where the Cisco code needs specialized hardware, so most people aren't going to be able to compile the files," he stated. Why compile it? If I know what the underlying program is doing, then I can write exploits to take advantage of it. Cisco is fooling themselves if they honestly believe that this is of no or limited consequence. >>”If you have the Windows source code, you can build it on your PC at home, where the Cisco code needs specialized hardware, so most people aren’t going to be able to compile the files,” he stated.

Why compile it? If I know what the underlying program is doing, then I can write exploits to take advantage of it. Cisco is fooling themselves if they honestly believe that this is of no or limited consequence.

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