[FRC Blog] Einstein Report Released

[Nick Lawrence]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Nick,
The bug was not discovered until well after St. Louis. Following an investigation and suspected cause, FIRST engineering staff began a testing sequence prior to the Einstein Weekend. It was during that testing that the interaction of all the components was found. Please remember it is the specific Cisco firmware, with the Dlink AP of a certain type that suffers the vulnerability.

Al,

Sorry, I should have been a little more clear about what I meant. I understand this was an issue with the D-Link robot AP firmware. What I meant is when did the individual themselves find this issue, and when did he prove to himself the existence of this issue with the firmware.

I in no way meant for that to be intended as "Why didn't FIRST know about this earlier?" or something of that nature.

I also want to comment on the "witch hunt" that CD is seemingly brewing. While I would love to hear from this person about the hole itself and how they discovered it, I think they have already paid the price for it. I think for their personal identity to be revealed would only lead to more despair for that person. However, I would like to see a statement from their team over the subject. I think we'll see one soon.

-Nick