Exploit writers team up to target Cisco routers
The companies made good on legal threats, settling on Thursday with Lynn, who signed a permanent injunction preventing him from using the presentation or disseminating the information at either Black Hat or the following DEF CON convention.
The legal tactics acted to mobilize security researchers and hackers at the shows to glean whatever information they could about the methods used by Lynn and reproduce his work.
"It won't take us six months to figure out what Michael Lynn did and how he did it," said one of the researchers in the room. "What Cisco did was stupid. It just attracted more attention to the problem."
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