Re: n3td3v says don't let EUSecWest Cisco IOS presentation go ahead

[silky <michaelslists () gmail com>]

wait.

maybe valdis is n3td3v.


On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:16 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2008 01:48:21 BST, n3td3v said:
>
> > This is a last minute plea to MI5, the UK Security Service to stop
> > this presentation going ahead.
> >
> > I will hold you responsible in later threads if n3td3v and Gadi
> > Evron's fears become reality.
> >
> > The Security Service (MI5) is responsible for protecting the United
> > Kingdom against threats to national security. This website provides
> > information about the Security Service, the threats it counters, links
> > to sources of security advice and details of careers with the Service.
> > http://www.mi5.gov.uk/
>
> Has it ever occurred to you that *maybe* MI5 is fully aware of the situation,
> and thinks that the best way to improve security is to let the talk happen?
>
> If he gives the talk, the trade rags will cover it, the C-levels that pay
> attention to the trade rags will get on the case of the Chief Info Officer,
> who will lean on their chief networking guys To Do Something About It, Dammit,
> and if the routers weren't secured to BCP before, they hopefully will be.
>
> If the talk doesn't happen, the C-levels don't see it in the trade rags, they
> don't lean on the CIO, who doesn't lean on the networking guys, who go off and
> deal with whatever *other* problem they have to deal with (like why their BGP
> feeds keep creating BGP Wedgies at two remote sites, or why they're having
> performance issues on one of their trans-ocean lines, or...) , and the company
> gets pwned by somebody with a rootkit.

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