Lynn Settles With Cisco, Investigated By FBI

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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Re:No good deed goes unpunished.

[stratjakt]

He exposed it at a hackers conference, to the same assholes who think its nifty to write an e-mail worm, or install sniffers to watch for credit card numbers.

He could have told Cisco themselves, or at the least, in security related fora.

You're the type of moral relativist probably wants to give Al Qaeda a medal for exposing the structural flaws in the WTC.