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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? Attachment:
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