Feds Seize $78M of Bogus Chinese Cisco Gear

Ian Lamont writes "The IDG News Service is reporting that US and Canadian authorities have made more than 400 seizures of counterfeit Cisco hardware from China in an ongoing investigation that started in 2005. The most recent seizure was last Friday in Toronto, where the RCMP charged two people and a company with distributing large quantities of counterfeit network components to companies in the US through the Internet. The RCMP seized approximately 1,600 pieces of counterfeit network hardware with an estimated value of $2 million, says the report. According to another source, bogus Cisco gear from China typically includes network modules, WAN interface cards, gigabit interface converters, and less expensive routers."

Comments

Re:no wonder

[EugeneK]

mod up insightful. America - future tech backwater where sweatshop labor makes knock-off crap..except with more religious fundamentalists and a worse transportation system.

Re:yeah, right.

[ScentCone]

getting pretty tiresome to see the police always trotting out the public safety angle

No more tiresome than it is to see someone on slashdot trotting the "The Pigs are only working for The Man" socialist hippy crap whenever another country's counterfitting efforts are exposed or someone's work is ripped off and they actually get some help dealing with it.

protect the corporation

Yeah, that evil Cisco. We sure wouldn't want to protect the millions of people who own stock in it, the billions of people who depend on data that passes through their equipment, or the thousands of people who work for the company. We should only protect routing equipment makers with 20 or fewer employees that work in organic huts owned by families of no more than three living generations and a just enough net worth to buy a Yugo that's been converted to run on oil pressed from chicken feathers that have been voluntarily offered up by free range chickens living in harmony with other birds, including predators that have been converted to veganism, no matter how much they want to eat that chicken.