full-disclosure - Re: n3td3v says don't let EUSecWest Cisco IOS presentation go ahead

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Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:20:20 +1000
From: silky <michaelslists@...il.com>
To: n3td3v <xploitable@...il.com>, full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: n3td3v says don't let EUSecWest Cisco IOS
	presentation go ahead

wait.

maybe valdis is n3td3v.


On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:16 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2008 01:48:21 BST, n3td3v said:
>
>> This is a last minute plea to MI5, the UK Security Service to stop
>> this presentation going ahead.
>>
>> I will hold you responsible in later threads if n3td3v and Gadi
>> Evron's fears become reality.
>>
>> The Security Service (MI5) is responsible for protecting the United
>> Kingdom against threats to national security. This website provides
>> information about the Security Service, the threats it counters, links
>> to sources of security advice and details of careers with the Service.
>> http://www.mi5.gov.uk/
>
> Has it ever occurred to you that *maybe* MI5 is fully aware of the situation,
> and thinks that the best way to improve security is to let the talk happen?
>
> If he gives the talk, the trade rags will cover it, the C-levels that pay
> attention to the trade rags will get on the case of the Chief Info Officer,
> who will lean on their chief networking guys To Do Something About It, Dammit,
> and if the routers weren't secured to BCP before, they hopefully will be.
>
> If the talk doesn't happen, the C-levels don't see it in the trade rags, they
> don't lean on the CIO, who doesn't lean on the networking guys, who go off and
> deal with whatever *other* problem they have to deal with (like why their BGP
> feeds keep creating BGP Wedgies at two remote sites, or why they're having
> performance issues on one of their trans-ocean lines, or...) , and the company
> gets pwned by somebody with a rootkit.

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