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To: RetiredNow who wrote (68385)	8/3/2005 2:44:29 PM
From: pfalk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

I saw the presentation slides. What those slides covered wasn't really what has been reported at all. The slides that I say was mostly a reverse engineering of Cisco's IOS, showing the actual code, and outlining how you'd defeat certain safeguards. The "problem" was that you had to "own" the router before you could do any of these things. I.e. this showed you how to break into your own router. Why would you do that, you already had full control of it? The only reason I could see was if you wanted to clone IOS for your own product, or if you wanted to use your own router to develop worms for routers. The article also pointed out that whatever offsets etc. you found, would most likely only be applicable to "your" particular router, i.e. you couldn't exploit whatever weakness you might find for other routers, unless it was an identical router, running exactly the same build of IOS (not just the same feature, but the same compile date too). Either there were two presentations, or this was merely a discussion of how to reverse engineer IOS. P

To: RetiredNow who wrote (68385)	8/3/2005 3:40:47 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 77400

Since faqs said this is the Cisco and Hybrid Car thread, I thought I'd post the following article. Lizzie, check out the comment about the Lexus Hybrid vs the Prius. Answers a couple questions you had. Looks like Toyota optimizes for performance on the Lexus and fuel economy on the Prius. I like Toyota's thinking on the future of being able to press a button to choose what optimization you'd like: fuel efficiency or power. Toyota planning 10 more hybrids By the end of this decade, Toyota plans for 25 percent of U.S. sales to be hybrid vehicles. August 3, 2005; Posted: 12:56 p.m. EDT (1656 GMT) RESEARCH A NEW CAR NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Toyota Motor Corp. plans to introduce 10 more gasoline-electric hybrid models globally by early next decade in a push to boost total sales of hybrids to 1 million, a top Toyota U.S. executive said. The world's second-biggest automaker is also aiming for hybrid vehicles to account for at least 25 percent of its U.S. sales in the same time period, Jim Press, Toyota's U.S. president and chief operating officer, told Reuters on the sidelines of an auto conference in this northern Michigan resort. Meeting a global goal of 1 million hybrid vehicles would mean that Toyota would have to sell about 600,000 vehicles in the U.S. alone, Press said, according to a report from Automotive News, an industry newspaper. "To achieve that goal, we will have to look at offering hybrid power systems in virtually all of our vehicles, including trucks," Press told Automotive News. Owners of future hybrid vehicles might be able to choose between high gas mileage or more performance by pressing a button on the instrument panel, said Press, according to the Automotive News report. Currently, some hybrid cars, like the Toyota Prius, are engineered to offer maximum fuel efficiency while others, like the Lexus 400h SUV, also from Toyota, offer increased performance at the cost of the best possible fuel economy. Gasoline/electric hybrid vehicles use electric motors in addition to gasoline engines to power the car. Some of the power from the gasoline engine and from braking is used to charge batteries for the electric motor. Toyota is currently working on hybrid-powered pick-up trucks, Press told Automotive News.