http://blogs.csoonline.com/security-industry/3050/cansecwest-talk-infrastructure-attacks-canceled-after-being-classified
By Steve Ragan
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CSO Online
March 09, 2014
Eric Filiol, head of the Operational Cryptography and Computer Virology
lab hosted by ESIEA in Laval, France, was scheduled to give a talk on
Friday at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
However, that talk has been canceled after reviewers in the intelligence
community deemed it a security risk.
In addition to censoring the talk, they also threatened legal action
against the conference and presenters.
In a brief post on the subject, Dragos Ruiu, the founder and organizer of
CanSecWest, outlined the basics.
"The French Dept. of Interior (their DHS equivalent) and the U.S. DoD
have decided that Eric Filiol's material about network attacks on
infrastructure is too dangerous, so they have classified it, disallowing
its presentation, and to punctuate their desires with an exclamation
point, rattling sabers about prosecution and lawsuits of conference
organizers and presenters.
To which I'd like to remind everyone concerned: 'Security by Obscurity,
is not much Security at all.' Hiding vulnerability information hinders
solutions and mitigation more than it hinders attackers."
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