A few weeks ago, there was quite a big story concerning how the NSA paid $10 million to RSA to make its compromised random number generator the „default“ in a key RSA product. The RSA issued a ridiculously stupid „categorical denial“ of the report, which actually denied something entirely different, more or less confirming the original report. Following this, one of the most well-known security researchers around, Mikko Hypponen, announced that he was cancelling his planned talk at RSA‘s big conference in February. Since then, additional security experts, including Chris Soghoian, Jeffrey Carr and Josh Thomas have each announced that they‘re cancelling their own talks as well.