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FBI Investigating Cisco Source Code Leak
05.29.2004 @ 12:59 AM PT | Marc Erickson
“Computerworld continues its reporting of Cisco’s source code leak, which has many ISPs and major companies re-examining their access control lists….Personally, I think that the real risk in having the source code out is a legal one. With the code out, some enterprising hacker might discover that Cisco’s IOS actually has some copylefted code in it. If that code is present, then it would mean that all of IOS is contaminated and needs to be published as open source… I’m not saying that this has happened, but you gotta let a guy have his dreams…”
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