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If this bug was discovered in a Huawei device we'd immediately call it a backdoor and plea to ban all these devices from our critical infrastructures. And yet,
by LeonM 7y ago
If this bug was discovered in a Huawei device we'd immediately call it a backdoor and plea to ban all these devices from our critical infrastructures.
And yet, when Cisco has a security bug we patiently wait for the patch and move on with our business.
- layer4 7y agoI think Cisco’s [existing] reputation goes a long way
- driverdan 7y agoTheir reputation for security flaws like this and helping suppress human rights by selling hardware to the Chinese government?
- whatthesmack 7y agoPerhaps. But also their reputation for actually originating ideas and technology (or legally acquiring them) instead of stealing swaths of intellectual property like Huawei has and does.
- VectorLock 7y agoI think most of the luster Cisco had 20 years ago is firmly and irrevocably tarnished.
- fulafel 7y agoYou mean their consistently bad security track record makes their bugs less suspicious?