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Cisco Complains To Obama About NSA Adding Spyware To Routers

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-out-of-there dept.

pdclarry (175918) writes "Glenn Greenwald's book No Place to Hide reveals that the NSA intercepts shipments of networking gear destined for overseas and adds spyware. Cisco has responded by asking the President to intervene and stop this practice, as it has severely hurt their non-U.S. business, with shipments to other countries falling from 7% for emerging countries to over 25% for Brazil and Russia."

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  1. NSA 911 Hurricanes... etc by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Well Thanks OBAMA!

  2. How do you know if your hardware has this? by NotSoHeavyD3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh that's easy, your cisco hardware actually works. I'll be here all night folks. Try the fish.

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  3. Obama will surely help by judoguy · · Score: 1, Funny
    Thank goodness Cisco has a champion of truth to appeal to.

    He'll, you know, speak truth to power! He'll battle the NSA on our behalf!

    He'll, he'll uh... Oh, never mind.

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  4. Re:Why bother with tricks? by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Funny

    You cant, It's a criminal offense to actually read that part of the patriot act.

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  5. Re:Don't complain. Sue. by rizole · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's a very specific post. Besides, I haven't seen Sue complain about this issue anyway.