[Chapter-delegates] Flame , ITU, Cyberwar - Why The U.N. Cares So Much About Flame Malware

[Marcin Cieslak]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:

> So I accept the allegation that some discussion went on in corridors and
> perhaps in some ad-hoc meetings, but then everybody was speaking about
> this at the time too. And many followed-up, discovering themselves a new
> career of "virus researcher", some creating some anti-virus software
> companies in the process and doing very well for themselves (John
> McAfee, Fridrik Skulason, Alan Solomon (Dr. Solly) and others), in true
> Internet innovation fashion.

Thank you for the references. Didn't know it is a part of the offical
legend. I was wondering how huge diplomatic machine would respond at the
very final moment of negotiations to such an event -- probably not very
well understood at the time as you point out.

//Marcin