IP: Alcatel appears to be going into ostrich mode on their DSL modem security

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 08:55:26 -0400
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>From: Tom Goltz <tgoltz@QuietSoftware.com>
>
> From Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram newsletter:
>
>>Normally, I wouldn't even bother with this story.  But Alcatel posted a 
>>MS Word file on their Web site about the problem and fix (which they've 
>>since removed).  Unfortunately, the file saved deleted changes.  The 
>>draft document is far more interesting than the real one.  See some of 
>>the deleted comments here:
>>http://morons.org/articles/1/188
>
>
>With attitudes like these from Alcatel, if I had the misfortune to be 
>using one of their modems, I'd be calling my ISP up and demanding a 
>different modem.
>
>



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