Chinese Media Calls For Boycott of Cisco

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @02:50AM from the better-to-be-tapped-domestically dept.

An anonymous reader writes "China's state-run media is calling on the country's wireless carriers to move away from Cisco products. According to reports, using Cisco products allows the U.S. to 'attack China almost at will,' and forms a 'terrible security threat.' Chinese officials are urging the companies' wireless carriers to switch to hardware made by Huawei and ZTE Corp. Citing cybersecurity concerns, the United States has banned the use of equipment from both Huawei and ZTE in its cellular networks. Cisco has not yet been named in documents describing the NSA's global wiretapping operations. Apple, a company named in leaked documents, has slashed iPhone production for the second half of this year on falling overseas sales."

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Re:Thank Edward Snowden by TWiTfan · 2013-06-25 03:12 · Score: 4, Funny

And Cisco saved DS9 countless times.

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Re:Thank Edward Snowden by Anonymous Coward · 2013-06-25 03:27 · Score: 2, Funny

We have always been at war with China