20 Apr 2004
Cisco Products Have Backdoors

The Slashdotter asks a very good question. This is the real reason that open source will beat closed in the security department every time.

Transparency = trust.

A Cisco Security Advisory released yesterday admits that "A default username/password pair is present in all releases of the Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) and Hosting Solution Engine (HSE) software. A user who logs in using this username has complete control of the device. This username cannot be disabled." Can we really trust closed-source vendors, such as Cisco, to develop secure products that are free of backdoors?

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