Re: Lynn / Cisco shellcode

[Ejovi Nuwere <ejovin () gmail com>]

I didn't think what happened to me in Japan, government pressuring
private companies to with hold publishing research at the final hour,
could happen here. Especially research that was already widely
understood.

Several points seem vaguely familiar.
1) Requesting that the material not be presented made the situation worse
2) Government (presumably) never contacted the researcher directly to
explain their point of view, instead relied on a companies commercial
interest to get things done.
3) The government's involvement raises the question as to just how
vulnerable they are?


> b) ISS has been working with Cisco on this issue for 6 months, and Cisco
> has been fine with the content for the majority of that time, and even
> approved the slide deck he sent to BH.  Two or three weeks ago, the
> Department of Homeland Security called Cisco and asked for the research
> to be squashed, and that this decision was made at the John Chambers-ish
> level.  ISS agreed quickly with Cisco (perhaps due to their large number
> of Gov contracts) but there were some negotiations over what to do.
> Apparently, Lynn made the decision to talk at the last minute, and
> totally surprised ISS.
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