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RE: Tuning false positives - SIM is not the answer

Subject: RE: Tuning false positives - SIM is not the answer
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:37:20 -0800
On 1/13/06, Matthew Caldwell <mcaldwel@micromuse.com> wrote:
You could always solicit to have the source for the Linux/GNU/GPL'ed
apps to be published from Cisco. Linksys had the same problem because
they could have modified the code. The same thing could be applied from
another perspective for other products out on the market.

Matt

That wouldn't work. The only GPL code on there is RedHat 7.2, the
source of which is available. Everything else is Cisco/Protego IP,
which they are under no obligation to release.

Mike

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