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Cisco Aquires SyPixx

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the internet-surveillance dept.

illeism writes "Forbes reports that Cisco is getting into the video surveillance business. From the article,"Cisco made the acquisition to capitalize on the trend that has been underway which is moving video surveillance from analog to IP.""

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  1. I don't care what you say, surveillance works. by elucido · · Score: 0, Troll


    Surveillance is good for security. If you want to have security you need surveillance, there is no other way to protect yourself or your property, so I think this surveillance is a good thing as long as the price is cheap enough for the average person to buy.

    On the collective level, Surviellance is good for America and good for national security. There are no drawbacks to surveillance. When you have better surveillance you don't need as many police officers, you also have better evidence to use against criminals who commit crimes. If you arent a criminal and arent commiting crimes what do you have to worry about?

  2. Someone here gets it. by elucido · · Score: 0, Troll

    Surveillance is not bad. It's good! So lets all agree that surveillance is good for national security, in specific if we are going to protect our business interests we NEED surveillance.

    If we are going to go with open source web surveillance, I actually think it would be one of the best ideas we have to fight the war against terrorism. When you can upload the surveillance to many eyes, or at least to the eyes within your business, it's the best security you can have.

    So in a way, I think Cisco is making the correct move. I don't know why people are thinking like this is a bad move when we are in a war against terrorism, we SHOULD be moving towards global surveillance, we should be moving towards better security related technologies, and we SHOULD be doing this in an open source model, because this would make the technology much cheaper, and free. I guess for some reason people on Slashdot have the old era style of thinking that we don't need any security, and that if you just leave your businesses unguarded that everything will be okay. Look, we HAVE no security unless we create it, we HAVE no security if we don't even have surveillance, the most basic of basic in security technology.

    In the future, everyone will know everything about everybody, and it will be searchable through Google, or bought and sold through the market. This is just the way things are headed, and I do not blame Cisco for making the obvious business decision of being ahead of the curve.