Company Sues Blackhat Because People Mocked Their Sponsored Presentation And Called It Snake Oil
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190824/23025242850/company-sues-blackhat-because-people-mocked-their-sponsored-presentation-called-it-snake-oil.shtml
Sean Gallagher, over at Ars Technica, has a story about yet another bizarre lawsuit. A company called Crown Sterling, which claims it's disrupting the entire encryption business, is suing the Black Hat conference organizers after it paid $115,000 to be a "gold sponsor," only to find their presentation widely mocked. You can read the complaint here. It's quite something.
Gallagher's article does a nice job summing up the presentation and the background in a single paragraph: