[82819] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Boing Boing: Michael Lynn's controversial Cisco security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Golding)
Fri Jul 29 13:06:35 2005
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:06:07 -0400
From: Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com>
To: "John C. A. Bambenek" <bambenek@gmail.com>,
"Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <d800cd54050729095673683dbc@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 7/29/05 12:56 PM, "John C. A. Bambenek" <bambenek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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...
>
If the "digital pearl harbor" does come to pass, this won't be remembered as
a shining hour for Cisco, ISS, Homeland Security (which is also in the mix),
or the FBI.
I hope the leadership at Cisco reflects on this incident and will utilize
different tactics the next time this happens. Similarly, I hope the
cybersecurity folks in our governments realize that, while a strong
relationship with vendors is essential, they must recognize that vendors
have different goals than they do.
The FBI raiding Lynn's house over a commercial dispute is too reminiscent of
Cryptonomicon for me.
- Dan
