[96168] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UK ISP threatens security researcher
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Apr 20 12:08:25 2007
To: Stephen Wilcox <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>, Will Hargrave <will@harg.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:51:20 BST."
<20070420145120.GL25191@mail4.tck.telecomplete.net>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:59:36 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:51:20 BST, Stephen Wilcox said:
> what other examples are there as you suggest a trend in hushing security vulns?
Skylarov ended up in jail for a while for daring to point out that a certain
foolish vendor had used ROT-13 as their encryption scheme.
Raven Adler had her run-in with Apple: "After realizing that Apple were not
my friends and were more interested in their PR spin":
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/fulldisc/full-disclosure/52959
Cisco initiated legal action at Michael Lynn and the Black Hat crew:
http://news.com.com/Cisco+hits+back+at+flaw+researcher/2100-1002_3-5807551.html
Ed Felten at Princeton had his famous run-in with the SDMI folks:
http://www.usenix.org/events/sec01/craver.pdf
which lead to threatened legal action:
http://cryptome.org/sdmi-attack.htm
Threats of legal action scuttled an RFID hacking demo at a recent BlackHat:
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11444
Now, as you were saying?
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