[154527] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco Update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Johnstone)
Thu Jul 5 15:25:42 2012
In-Reply-To: <201207051807.q65I7EQo081653@aurora.sol.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 12:24:58 -0700
From: Jeff Johnstone <jj@diamondtech.ca>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
> > Technical users could always just flash DD-WRT onto the device and =
> > replace the Linksys/Cisco firmware; then you have a much more robust =
> > system without any big brother stuff.
>
> Or Cisco could just omit the big brother stuff.
>
> This is not a technological failure. In fact, automatic updates of
> router firmware are overdue. Good job on that front.
>
> It is the implications of your router dictating to you what sort of
> uses might be acceptable and what is not that's troubling, and that
> seems to have happened on several levels in this product.
>
> ... JG
>
This is what has me thinking about shorting Cisco stock. When the legal
implications of this hit the FCC <http://www.fcc.gov/>,
EFF<http://www.eff.org>,
or here in Canada the CRTC <http://www.crtc.gc.ca>, the shouts will begin.
This breaks all sorts of regulations about privacy and I'm sure a few other
product sales laws in the different countries where the products are sold.
Interesting times we live in....
cheers
Jeff
