Freedom Ripped Apart

[Rakesh 'Arky' Ambati]

Morning Friends,

Michael Lynn is security expert who was supposed to do presentation on
Cisco's critical vulnerabilities ("The Holy Grail: Cisco IOS Shellcode
And Exploitation Techniques") 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.
[ http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/29/michael_lynns_contro.html ]


Before the Cisco strong-armed Mike Lynn's employer into forcing him to
abandon his planned presentation on vulnerabilities in Cisco routers at
the Black Hat conferences, they sent employees down to literally rip
Lynn's presentation out of the program books.There is video of the event
mirrored around the internet.
[ http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/08/video_of_ciscoi.html ]
[ http://downloads.oreilly.com/make/cisco.mov  ]


Meanwhile Mike gave a interview to "Router Flaw Is a Ticking Bomb" to
Wired Magazine.
[ http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,68365,00.html ]


Its seems everyone is bracing up for a battle.
Mike Lynn presentation mirrors and legal fund
[ http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/30/mike_lynn_presentati.html ]

I have yet looking into this matter very much and am not familiar with
technical aspects, so am looking out for both legal, media and technical
members to provide their comments on this.

TIA

-- 
arky

Rakesh 'arky' Ambati
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