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Last week's theft of source code for Cisco's PIX firewall, and its open sale for $24,000 over Usenet by a shadowy group called the Source Code Club must have put
November 09, 2004

So I wouldn't worry too much about proprietary Cisco code being sold to all takers. It's unlikely anyone's going to buy it. You'd do well to pay attention to more basic security measures, ones as simple as strengthening passwords.

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