"Cisco" and "security issue" go together like peanut butter and chocolate. Knowing this, and with the knowledge that IOS is some form of arcane torture, leads me to wonder: why hasn't Cisco been completely obsoleted by Juniper or other providers?
Back in 2015 they pretended to be shocked that the Dual_EC algorithm, of which people warned it may contain a backdoor since 2007, and then it was confirmed by Snowden's documents in 2013, could actually be exploited by the baddies.
To complete your point:
Security researchers solved the mystery around a sophisticated backdoor embedded in Juniper firewalls. Juniper Networks announced on [Dec. 17, 2015] that it had discovered two unauthorized backdoors in its firewalls, including one that allows the attackers to decrypt protected traffic passing through Juniper's devices. The NSA may be responsible for that backdoor. Even if the NSA did not plant the backdoor in the company's source code, the spy agency may in fact be indirectly responsible [due to] weaknesses the NSA allegedly placed in a government-approved encryption algorithm known as Dual_EC. The Juniper backdoor is a textbook example of how someone can exploit the existing weaknesses in the Dual_EC algorithm the security community warned about back in 2007.[1]
[1] Paraphrased from https://www.wired.com/2015/12/researchers-solve-the-juniper-...
Because Cisco is a unique snowflake in having issues? /s
Juniper and Force 10 were nice, if only they could be bought outside of the USA and by non English speakers.
That's what I recall from a decade ago. Can you name the options that were so great?
It' all magic! [1]
[0]https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?hl=en#!msg/comp.lang.perl... [1]https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?hl=en#!msg/comp.lang.perl...
EDIT: except for the missing trailing "/"
In fact that last example I might write as either of the two following ways:
s,$,/,
s{$}{/} # this is supported in Perl but not sed
Fill your company with mass hires to get "area under the curve." Make vanity hires. Slant compensation to the top 10%. Hire only the desperate who couldn't find work elsewhere when doing school recruiting but consider yourselves "successful" in college recruiting. Have people who are so institutionalized they not just mostly have never worked outside, they wouldn't be able to. Congratulate Foo for 22 Years at XXXX!
Hire tons of low cost contractors. Be that company where teams of inexpensive contractors don't just "help out" on projects by making everything harder, they go on to work for the company for 16 years. Build out in lower cost locations without imposing a bar - after all, engineering hours are fungible and even if the quality is lower you can do 3:1 - and they'll have mentoring from the Valley engineers assigned to turn them into successful teams. It's just engineering.
It turns out that mediocrity in coding is very, very bad.