Jennifer Granick is the Executive Director of the Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford, and is by all appearances a crack IP lawyer and a prolific blogger. She doesn’t appear to sleep as far as I can tell, or apparently has cloned herself, or maybe she’s a GTD samurai? Greplaw has a great interview and profile.

She’s recently posted a fascinating four-part series on Mike Lynn, her latest client, who created an uproar and got himself sued for revealing that it was possible to remotely execute code on Cisco routers. Since Cisco routers are ubiquitous, sky-is-falling types are postulating the entire internet could grind to a halt if details on creating an exploit fell into the wrong hands. Cisco has been aware of the issue, but has kept it under tight wraps, raising the interesting chicken-egg sequencing dilemma of whether it’s better to publicize the vulnerability (thus alerting potential hackers) or keep it secret (whereas your customers can’t patch what they don’t know is vulnerable). Well worth the read…

Wired Article: An Insider’s View of ‘Ciscogate’, Jennifer Granick’s Blog, The Shout, (part 1), (part 2), (part 3), (part 4)