The emperor is naked.

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR HAT? Up until the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas this July, Michael Lynn was employed by Internet Security Systems (ISS) as part of its X-Force team of security researchers. He was scheduled to give a talk entitled “Cisco IOS Security Architecture” at the conference. The abstract said it would “provide an architectural overview of IOS and explore the feasibility of code execution against Cisco routers.” This is the very code that runs most of the routers on the Internet. In his talk, Lynn was to describe a way to build software exploits that would work against ex-