Age of surveillance: the fish is rotting from its head

Re:Age of surveillance: the fish is rotting from its head by alanh on Friday January 14, 2011 @08:10PM (#2106116)

What do you think Cisco imagines networking equipment sold to oppressive governments is going to be used for?

Edit: Jeeze borism, I mention Cisco because they are the ones with ads playing between Glee episodes. No, I’m sure they aren’t the “only ones.”

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Re:Age of surveillance: the fish is rotting from its head by borism on Friday January 14, 2011 @08:18PM (#2106137)

but then any company making networking equipment sold to oppressive regimes should be equally responsible, why did you single out Cisco?

obviously Cisco is the market leader and probably more of their equipment ends up everywhere (I'm not so sure though, for example Alcatel-Lucent equipment might be more welcome by anti-US regimes, than same equipment from US companies. A-L is also known UN sanctions violator).

or do you have any evidence that Cisco is specifically marketing for oppressive regimes?

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Re:Age of surveillance: the fish is rotting from its head by neworbit on Friday January 14, 2011 @09:58PM (#2106316)

Well, the RIAA uses Cisco gear...

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Re:Age of surveillance: the fish is rotting from its head by borism on Saturday January 15, 2011 @03:42PM (#2107748)

jeeze alanh, I'm sure you're on to something. I just don't think supporting oppressive regimes is it.

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