Re: Cisco IOS Shellcode Presentation

[Michael Holstein <michael.holstein () csuohio edu>]

> Cisco is responsible for this entire mess. Had they engineered a secure 
> product around a CPU that was not general purpose, none of this would be 
> happening now.

Okay .. so we write 'special purpose' shellcode then. Cisco could have 
designed the CPU as a ASIC, at the expense of being able to 
field-upgrade like they can with software -- or they could have used 
something like a FPGA to emulate an ASIC, at the expense of cost.

Everything's a trade off.

~Mike.
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