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To Avoid NSA Interception, Cisco Will Ship To Decoy Addresses

Posted by timothy on from the name-is-smith-john-smith dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this news snipped from The Register: Cisco will ship boxes to vacant addresses in a bid to foil the NSA, security chief John Stewart says. The dead drop shipments help to foil a Snowden-revealed operation whereby the NSA would intercept networking kit and install backdoors before boxen reached customers. The interception campaign was revealed last May. Speaking at a Cisco Live press panel in Melbourne today, Stewart says the Borg will ship to fake identities for its most sensitive customers, in the hope that the NSA's interceptions are targeted. 'We ship [boxes] to an address that has nothing to do with the customer, and then you have no idea who, ultimately, it is going to,' Stewart says.

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  1. Not new by raftpeople · · Score: 5, Funny

    "We ship [boxes] to an address that's has nothing to do with the customer,"

    I know some other companies that seem to do this for about half my orders.

  2. Plural of Box is Bice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mouse-> Mice
    Louse -> Lice
    House -> Hice
    Platapouse -> Platapice
    Faux -> Fauce
    Fox -> Fice
    Box -> Bice

  3. Re:a bid to foil the NSA, John Stewart says by Your.Master · · Score: 5, Funny

    The plural of John Stewart is John Stewarten.