[ale] Ouch

[Jim Kinney]

Ha! Well sung, er, um, mangled.
On Dec 18, 2015 11:37 PM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> 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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