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Re: (ASCEND) In Defense Of Ascend...
throwaway-id@technologist.com wrote:
>
> Come on, people! Ascend deserves to be beaten about the
> head with a 2x4 on a number of issues (and the members of
> this list do a good job of it), but the issue of this
> specific security vulnerability does NOT seem to be
> one of them.
>
<snip>
I agree that the snmp issue is one of education and not
a bug. End of that story.
As far as the "port 9" problem, I strongly disagree with
you. I do not believe that Ascend understands that
distributing poorly designed software is unacceptable.
I do not believe that an engineer worth their salt would
have proposed such a design. It speaks volumes (and I
am appalled) that such a design was accepted by management,
was implemented, and distributed.
Ascend,
I do not run Microsoft products, so I am unaccustomed
to having problems of this type. I expect you to produce
well designed and tested commercial quality software and
hardware. Security through obscurity is unacceptable and
is evidence of an unqualified engineering team (or maybe
unrealistic management).
I am further incensed by the fact that you compromised the
security of my Ascend HW in a effort to support a product
that was only able to be run on Microsoft based systems
(an insecure, non-commercial quality OS) - and you didn't
tell anybody you did this.
While there are many more issues that should be addressed,
I tire of this...
Robert
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