[ale] Ouch

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Fri Dec 18 23:34:49 EST 2015


Wheel of vulnerabilities turn, turn, turn.  Give us the lesson that we
should learn.

On 2015-12-18 20:04, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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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