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Message-ID: <1085501332.15304.33.camel@coruscant.weisserth.net> From: tobias at weisserth.de (Tobias Weisserth) Subject: Cisco's stolen code Hi Brian, On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 17:28, Brian Toovey wrote: ... > Calm down - While I think it was kind of ignorant to post here asking > for code and not grep IRC, I dont think this was "not sticking to the > rules" or "not playing the game." If and when this source becomes > available I hope decent coders will audit to find vulns and post here > - if whitehats dont audit the code, who will? I find your response > more ignorant. Well, let's face the simple facts. Cisco's code is copyrighted and it's illegal to copy it, distribute it or even use it. There's no way around it. Whatever your intentions are the Cisco code is legally off-limits. This may stink and it may hinder security audits but if Cisco wanted you or anybody else to audit their code they would have licensed it to you. Since they didn't, this leaves you in a very shitty position if you touch their code. You may be able to find security flaws but you have broken laws to do so. Period. For me, breaking laws is NOT acceptable under ANY circumstance. I hope the majority of people on this list is with me on this. If this list evolves into a meeting place where copyrighted code is "negotiated" and its distribution organised then our goal of full disclosure of security flaws in IT is not met. You can't improve security by breaking laws. This renders this list and everybody posting here untrustworthy. If you want to audit code then stick to the code that is released under licenses that allow public code auditing. Don't even think to look at code that hasn't be released under an open license. Maybe this will motivate more vendors to license their products under an Open Source license. regards, Tobias W.
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