Huge Cisco mess?

[Rudy]

As I was reading through my morning news I found a very interesting
link. It seems that Michael Lynn from Boing Boing
(http://www.boingboing.net/) has been doing some exploiting and
reverse-engineering of Cisco's IOS software, which powers a huge chunk
of networks around the world
(http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/732/Tech/). Well, apparently he found
a serious flaw that could render the router helpless by giving anyone
the equivalent of root. According to an interview done by Wired, it was
all being done with Cisco's concent and they even denied such a flaw
existed in the software
(http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,68365,00.html).

Well, it all came down to Cisco sending their goons to rip out the
pages from the book given to the attendees of the BlackHat Conference
last week and here's a video to prove it,
http://downloads.oreilly.com/make/cisco.mov. Here's a also the PDF
(http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/lynn-cisco.pdf) of the pages that were
ripped out. Now Cisco has a settlement with Lynn that means he has to
dump all of his research in this area. Also ISS has gotten the FBI
involved. To top things off, Cisco/ISS are now sending Cease and Desist
orders to anyone who hosts the presentation photos.

There's also a non-technical explanation of what happened between Lynn
and Cisco which explains it in plain english,
http://www.memestreams.net/users/dagmar/blogid5665679.