Not so strange [LWN.net]

Not so strange

Posted Jul 29, 2005 14:32 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Cisco Files Suit to Gag Researcher, Security Conference (eWeek) by clugstj
Parent article: Cisco Files Suit to Gag Researcher, Security Conference (eWeek)

In fact, it might be more strange to see Cisco asking for it, if you see the issue from a cynical and rather twisted point of view.

I think that taking the issues to the courts gives the issue much more publicity than just letting the conference go ahead. And publicity about insecurities in IOS is the last thing that Cisco should want. However, for ISS it is free advertising: "Look how good we are, first we discover the issue and then we protect the guys suffering from it, even if it means going after our own employee."

Again, cynical and twisted but possible.

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Not so strange

Posted Jul 29, 2005 17:31 UTC (Fri) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

ISS has a legal obligation to pursue Lynn. They signed a non-disclosure agreement, and their employee violated it.

This will be bad for ISS no matter what. Who wants to hire a security firm that can't keep its collective mouth shut? In a perfect world, such a firm would be very popular: "We hired Bigmouth Consulting to study our router, and they haven't made a peep about it." In our world, managers are much too timid, and the credibility of security consultants is too little known and too hard to gauge.

score +4, funny

Posted Aug 1, 2005 1:25 UTC (Mon) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

> In a perfect world, such a firm would be very popular:
> "We hired Bigmouth Consulting to study our router, and
> they haven't made a peep about it."

tee hee hee