UK ISP threatens security researcher

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Fri Apr 20 15:59:36 UTC 2007


On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:51:20 BST, Stephen Wilcox said:

> what other examples are there as you suggest a trend in hushing security vulns?

Skylarov ended up in jail for a while for daring to point out that a certain
foolish vendor had used ROT-13 as their encryption scheme.

Raven Adler had her run-in with Apple: "After realizing that Apple were not
my friends and were more interested in their PR spin":
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/fulldisc/full-disclosure/52959

Cisco initiated legal action at Michael Lynn and the Black Hat crew:
http://news.com.com/Cisco+hits+back+at+flaw+researcher/2100-1002_3-5807551.html

Ed Felten at Princeton had his famous run-in with the SDMI folks:
http://www.usenix.org/events/sec01/craver.pdf
which lead to threatened legal action:
http://cryptome.org/sdmi-attack.htm

Threats of legal action scuttled an RFID hacking demo at a recent BlackHat:
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11444

Now, as you were saying?
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