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Re: Boing Boing: Michael Lynn's controversial Cisco security presentat ion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John C. A. Bambenek)
Fri Jul 29 12:57:25 2005
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:56:58 -0500
From: "John C. A. Bambenek" <bambenek@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "John C. A. Bambenek" <bambenek@gmail.com>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050729.092800.17232.178436@webmail23.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Remind me why I bother with information security when industry and the
government seems to want to ensure things can be pwn3d as easily as
possible...
On 7/29/05, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) <fergdawg@netzero.net> wrote:
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> Now the FBI is investigating Lynn for criminal wrongdoing?
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> Kim Zetter writes in Wired News this morning that:
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> The FBI is investigating a computer security researcher for criminal cond=
uct after he revealed that critical systems supporting the internet and man=
y networks have a serious software flaw that could allow someone to crash o=
r take control of the routers.
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> [and]
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> The FBI declined to discuss the case.
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> [snip]
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> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,68356,00.html
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> - ferg
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> >
> > Over on Boing Boing:
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> > [snip]
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> > Here's a PDF that purports to be Michael Lynn's presentation
> > on Cisco's critical vulnerabilities ("The Holy Grail: Cisco
> > IOS Shellcode And Exploitation Techniques"), delivered at
> > last week's Black Hat conference. Lynn's employer, ISS,
> > wouldn't let him deliver the talk (they'd been leant on by
> > Cisco), so Lynn quit his job, walked onstage and delivered it
> > anyway. (See yesterday's post and Scheneier's take for more).
> > 1.9MB PDF Link
> >
> > [snip]
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> > http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/29/michael_lynns_contro.html
> >
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Thanks,
j
