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Lynn Settles With Cisco, Investigated By FBI

Posted by Zonk on from the bad-friday dept.

Following up on yesterday's story, daria42 writes "Security researcher Michael Lynn has settled a dispute with Cisco over his presentation on hacking the company's routers, which was given at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas this week. The two parties and Black Hat organisers have agreed not to further discuss the presentation, which contained techniques Lynn said could bring the Internet to its knees." Not all is good news, though. jzeejunk writes "The FBI is investigating computer security researcher Michael Lynn for criminal conduct after he revealed that critical routers supporting the internet and many networks have a serious software flaw that could allow someone to crash or take control of them."

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  1. In Soviet Russia ... by sosume · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh wel, this might as well be soviet russia!

    1. Re:In Soviet Russia ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      In soviet russia this is funny and relevant.

  2. Goodness... by coop0030 · · Score: 4, Funny
    which contained techniques Lynn said could bring the Internet to its knees.


    Can you imagine the chaos?

    I bet some people would even end up going outside.

    I would probably crawl up into a ball and cry until it was fixed; with my girlfriend consoling me.

    I suppose I could look through my old cached history of webpages and pretend that I was online!
    1. Re:Goodness... by rcamera · · Score: 2, Funny

      no, and that's the nice thing about them.

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      Wave upon wave of demented avengers March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream
  3. Use a brain, go to jail. by mmell · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course, with the internet down we could all agree to meet and pretend to chat with each other in the big blue room. I'd even be willing to use my face to emulate emoticons, if that'll help.

  4. I was in just about as much trouble as he is... by 1336.5 · · Score: 1, Funny

    But my situation was a little different - it was something like, "I swear officer, she told me she was 18, I SWEAR!!!!!!"

  5. Big mistake - wrong conference by ch-chuck · · Score: 3, Funny

    You should always give these type of presentations at the "White Hat Security Researchers Conference of Law Enforcing Good Guys", not the "Black Hat Hacker Convention of Nefarious Ne'er-do-wells and Juvenile Deliquents".

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    try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
  6. Re:1984 Called... by brer_rabbit · · Score: 3, Funny

    1984 is fine by me. Another year of playing Beach Head on the C64 while rockin' out to Frankie Goes to Hollywood would be good.

  7. Re:It may or may not be illegal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've been writing letters to my Congressman and Senators about the DMCA for some time, but they're not listening.

    I've been to Washington and met with many Senators
    and Congressmen. I can assure you that they are listening.

    Listening for the rustle of non-consequtively numbered $100 bills being counted out, mostly.

  8. Re:Wow my Hats off to you Americans by Christopheles · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shhhhhh, if they actually come up with a system that encourages fixing vital software errors, then how are we going to do the exploiting?