[82833] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Boing Boing: Michael Lynn's controversial Cisco security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Haagsman)
Fri Jul 29 16:19:26 2005
From: Erik Haagsman <erik@we-dare.net>
Reply-To: erik@we-dare.net
To: Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <BF0FDA3F.D719%dgolding@burtongroup.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:18:18 +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 19:06, Daniel Golding wrote:
> 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.
Perhaps more importantly, ISS should try to get it's act together and
realise they let a highly skilled and motivated researcher go over
political issues that should have never influenced a true security
driven company in their decision making.
How on earth are you gonna try to maintain the image of an independent
security company after a clear case of politics and behind-the-scenes
shennenigans like these...?
Erik
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