My comment on their little daydream post... (Posted right to the website)

Shame on you for posting an article like this in your capacity as Editor without (apparently) doing a lick of research beforehand! While it may well be true that had Lynn not come forward, many of those hackers would still have no clue that such a stunt was even possible, it's entirely useless to warble on about the danger the people trying to replicate Lynn's work represent without taking into account their motivation. You appear to be heaping the blame for this exclusively at Lynn's feet, which is hogwash. Lynn based his work in part from research that had been published quite some time before, and no one really followed up on it when it was originally published--they had no motivation. This time, however, the heavy-handed treatment Lynn recieved at the hands of the lawyers of both Cisco and ISS has given thousands of people the motivation necessary for them to do more than say "Hey, that's pretty slick" and go back to worrying about their own problems.

They're extremely incensed because one of the things that makes a hacker mad is telling them they're not allowed to know something that could make their little corner of the Internet work better. Normal system administrators might go through their day half asleep knowing they can call a support line if something goes terribly wrong, but most "hackers" still view the Internet as an arms race--be secure or be pwned.

You then go on to say that it took Lynn "years" to develop this exploit. That's entirely incorrect and there's more than one source available that would have told you the real figure... It took Lynn around six months to uncover this problem--not even one full year.

You draw some crazy analogy between Lynn's announcement and some incident in a piece of fiction, well let me sort that out properly for you. Lynn hasn't been making anyone a target--he's been telling everyone that the metal bucket on their head can't be counted on to stop bullets so they should keep their fool heads DOWN.

In your next to last paragraph you lament the lack of information you have on the matter, and the reality is that a little websearching would have answered every one of your questions!

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