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NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Cisco foots the bill, Microsoft swallows pill - Never shoot yourself in the foot when it's already in your mouth.(America Online Inc. released database of web searches )(Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista)(Cisco Systems Inc. PIX firewall)
So what are a few search terms between friends? A lot, as AOL found out after it blithely released a database of some 20 million Web searches last week. Although subscribers' names were replaced with numbers, the searches revealed addresses, Social Security numbers, and "hobbies" -- like one guy apparently researching how to murder his wife. That explains AOL's new proposed tagline: You've got manslaughter!
Router rooters: At last year's Black Hat confab, Cisco sued security geek Mike Lynn after he revealed critical flaws in the company's Internetwork Operating System. This year Cisco sent its CSO to the show and threw a party (which Lynn crashed). That still didn't …
