[ale] Ouch

[Jim Kinney]

On Dec 18, 2015 7:14 PM, "Leam Hall" <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, the F5 BigIPs were BSD then Linux. Cisco Nexus switches are also
running Linux. I think its a done deal. A while back I was looking at some
big Sun hardware controllers, like the DELL DRAC. It ran Linux.
>
> What bothers me is they are often viewed as "an appliance" and never get
patched or secured.

And THAT will be ignored as it become a 'Linux failure'. The corollary to
"publish early and often" is "patch early and often".
>
>
>
> On 12/18/15 19:03, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>>
>> On 12/18/2015 06:20 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>>>
>>>
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/politics/juniper-networks-us-government-security-hack/index.html
>>
>>
>> Not realizing the issue for 6 years? Srsly?
>>
>> So we can't trust Juniper, Cisco, Netgear, TL-link, ... there are only a
few
>> left.  Looks like building our own network routers and switches with BSD
or
>> Linux will be the only way going forward.
>
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