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Story: Cisco reaches deal with flaw researcher

I ask readers accross the Internet to write to John T. Chambers, President of Cisco Systems regarding Black Hat confrence and Michael Lynn Saga. since then Things at Cisco systems moved in the negative direction. Among the negative happenings at Cisco the following stand out. 1. Cisco used its legal Muscle for Lynn to voluntarily agree to a permanent Injunction, 2. agree to refrain from participation at Black Hat Confrence, 3. Chambers issued a statement that Lynn was silenced because he had obtained the vital information illegally and had to be silenced, 4. Cisco issued a baa humbug patch to cure the flaw disclosed by Lynn.

This is not the way a CEO of a major Multinational should act. He can't silence a researcher after his result uncovers negative information. People can't trust Cisco. Nobody knows how good the patch, issued by Cisco is if people can't talk about if the Patch is useless. Microsoft issues daily patches to windows operating systems. I know because I'v Windows XP.

The least that Chambers should have done is to 1. vacate the temporary Injunction, 2. Hired the researcher Michael Lynn back and 3. assured the world that he is as concerned about the matter as Michael Lynn is.

John T Chambers can't be trusted. He has to go, not Michael Lynn the researcher.

I ask every reader to write to John T Chambers asking him to resign as Cisco CEO and telling him you are writing to every Director to fire him if he does not resign.

I'm listing below the names of every Director of Cisco Systems and his Assress. Please write asking him to fire Jon T. Chambers if he does not resign.

Address of John T Chambers, CEO Cisco Systems, 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134-1706

His Telephone number 408-526-4000

Names and Addresses of Director of the Board of Cisco Systems

1. Jerry YANG, Yahoo Co-founder 701 1st ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089

2. Donald T Valentine, Partner and Co-founder of Sequoia Capital, 3000 Sandhill Rd Building 4, Suite 180, Menlo Park CA 94025

3. Steven M. West, Partner and Founder of Emerging Company Partners LLC 551 Lantern Court, Incline Village, NV 89451

4.Richard M. Kovalevich, Director, C/O Barclays Global Systems, 45 Freemont St, 17th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94106

5. John P. Morgridge, C/O Cogent Communications Group
1015 31 St, Washington DC20007

6. Roderick C. McGeary, 1676 International Dr, McLean, VA22102

7. James T. Gibbons, 10001 Louisiana St, Houston, TX 77002, second Address Professor, Research, Electrical Engineering Dept., Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

8. Michele M Burns, Exec VP, Mirant Corp., 1155 Perimeter Center West Atlanta, GA 30308

9. Carol Bartz, C/O Auto Desk, INC., 111 Mc Innis Parkway, San Rafael, CA 94903

10. John L. Hennessy, President, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

11. James C. Morgan, Chairman, Applied Materials, 3050 Bowers Ave, Santa Clara, CA 95054

Please also write to the following parties that have voting agreemebts with Cisco for election of Directors:

1. H. Perry Barth, Chief Accounting Officer, NetSolve,
2.Jeffery Guillot, Vice President Development, NetSolve
3. Russel Sellers, Product Development, NetSolve
4. Jerry J. Quade, VP Human Resource, NetSolve
6. Richard Hamilton, VP, Service and Delivery, NetSolve
7. David P. Hood, CEO, NetSolve
8. Gregory K. Jones, VP Sales, Net Solve
9. Michael Guillard, Cornerstone Mgmt Profit Sharing Plan, P.O. box 1203, Menlo Park, CA 94026
10. John McCarthy, Gateway Venture Partnership 8000 Maryland Ave #1190, St. Louis, MO 63105
111.Guillard Family Trust, P.O. Box 1203, Menlo Park, CA 94026
12. George N Gregoise, Rancher, Editor, Columnist, CIO Magazine
13.Spectra Enterprise Resource LP, 1119 St. Paul St., Baltimore, MD 21202
14.Howard D.Wolfe Jr., General Partner of Venture Partners I LP; New Venture Partners LP, New VEnture Partners II and III LP, 1119 St. Paul, Baltimore, MD 21202
15. James J. Zucco, Corzente, Inc., 444 Madison Ave,

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