Re: New T&C poll: Was Lynn right?

[ljknews <ljknews () mac com>]

At 11:54 AM +0100 8/9/05, Nick Murison wrote:
> (Yes, this is a shameless plug)
>
> Good morning everyone,
>
> Seen as the storm after BlackHat has settled a little, I thought it'd be nice
> to see what people had decided about Michael Lynn's presentation.  Was he
> right to go ahead with it, or was it really not his call?
>
> Judging from the security mailing lists, everyone and their dog has now had
> the opportunity to ramble on about the finer details of the situation.  At
> www.ThreatsAndCountermeasures.com, we just want some straight answers, so we
> made it the topic of our latest poll :)
>
> So go along to https://www.threatsandcountermeasures.com and submit your
> vote:
>
> Was Lynn right to hold his BlackHat talk?
> a) Yes, information should be free
> b) Yes, to safeguard infrastructure
> c) No, to safeguard infrastructure
> d) No, he violated IP
> e) Don't care

You omitted:

  f) Not enough information provided to know what on earth you are discussing.
-- 
Larry Kilgallen

[Ed. *grin*  There were numerous media accounts of the uproar that Michael Lynn
generated at the BlackHat conference a week+ ago by disclosing a heap overflow
vulnerability (that can lead to execution of arbitrary code on a target system)
in Cisco's IOS. Check out 
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/patches/article.php/3524701 
for a short overview, for example.  KRvW]