RE: Boing Boing: Michael Lynn's controversial Cisco security presentat ion

2005-07-29 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Now the FBI is investigating Lynn for criminal wrongdoing? Kim Zetter writes in Wired News this morning that: [snip] The FBI is investigating a computer security researcher for criminal conduct after he revealed that critical systems supporting the internet and many networks have a serious

Re: Boing Boing: Michael Lynn's controversial Cisco security presentat ion

2005-07-29 Thread John C. A. Bambenek
Remind me why I bother with information security when industry and the government seems to want to ensure things can be pwn3d as easily as possible... On 7/29/05, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now the FBI is investigating Lynn for criminal wrongdoing? Kim Zetter writes

Re: Boing Boing: Michael Lynn's controversial Cisco security presentat ion

2005-07-29 Thread Daniel Golding
On 7/29/05 12:56 PM, John C. A. Bambenek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remind me why I bother with information security when industry and the government seems to want to ensure things can be pwn3d as easily as possible... If the digital pearl harbor does come to pass, this won't be

Re: Boing Boing: Michael Lynn's controversial Cisco security presentat ion

2005-07-29 Thread Erik Haagsman
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