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