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Legal disassembly
Mark Rasch, 2005-08-22

When security researcher and ISS employee Michael Lynn went to give a presentation at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, little did he know he would ignite a legal firestorm questioning whether even the act of looking for security vulnerabilities violates the law.

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Legal disassembly 2005-08-23
Anonymous
Mark, I think you missed some important facts of the story. The vulnerability "exploited" by Lynn was old. Cisco had released a patch to fix that 3 months before BlackHats Conference.

The truth is that Cisco sued Lynn to stop his bad-marketing speech. In fact Lynn was claiming that that bug was f...

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