Jul 29 2005
Cisco lets researcher off the hook
Cisco, Security Researcher Settle Dispute
Well, it looks like Michael Lynn isn’t going to have to go to jail after all. He, ISS, Cisco and the Black Hat organizers all reached an agreement whereby they all pretend the presentation never happened. Lynn has promised to never speak of the incident again, Black Hat is turning over all videos of the presentation, and all other evidence of the presentation is going to disappear.
On one hand, I’m happy for Mr. Lynn in getting off without having to go through a long legal battle, though I think he’s still unemployeed. On the other hand, Cisco has successfully blocked the information from getting to the public. Hopefully next week one of the people who attended the presentation will publish their notes to the web and all the efforts by Cisco will be for naught.