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Cisco routers now lock you out unless you join their online service

11 points by kodisha 14y ago

LnxPrgr3 14y ago
This is just amazing, and it makes me glad I haven't bought a Linksys product since the merger. Enough parties can already track what we do online. Why should we pay Cisco for the privilege of adding them to that list?
samarudge 14y ago
I assume (hope) this doesn't include enterprise products.
quesera 14y ago
Well, the linked page crashes embedded WebKit, mobile Safari, and Instapaper. So I can only scan it quickly before it disappears. Cisco is consumer-dumb/hostile, and out of touch in many ways, but I'm highly skeptical of this claim. There's a link that seems to be included as supporting evidence, but I can't click it before it disappears. If anyone can copy it here, please do.
- greenyoda 14y ago
  Link to original news article: Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion http://www.extremetech.com/computing/132142-ciscos-cloud-vision-mandatory-monetized-and-killed-at-their-discretion http://www.extremetech.com/computing/132142-ciscos-cloud-vis...
  - quesera 14y ago
    OK, my skepticism was misplaced. Thanks for posting the link. Cisco is entirely emphatically in the wrong here. I think this is indicative of a much bigger problem than the article suggests. Cisco is falling way behind in their core hardware market (routers and switches), losing in VoIP, never could write acceptable software, failed and unwound their consumer services push from a few years back (social networking sw), abandoned their consumer non-networking hardware (Flip, that tablet thing), and are now getting tone-deaf "creative" in their low-margin consumer networking hardware (Linksys) division?? What's left?? Scientific Atlanta set top boxes? Not to be overly dramatic, but this speaks very very poorly for Cisco's vision of itself, and I think we can learn something here. Chambers is starting to look a lot like Ballmer. The clock is ticking.
antidoh 14y ago
If I had one of these (I have an older Linksys), I'm pretty sure I'd go buy one from some other company, then take my formerly viable Linksys router, smash it to bits, put it and a fuck you note in a box and send it to Cisco.

11 points by kodisha 14y ago

This is just amazing, and it makes me glad I haven't bought a Linksys product since the merger. Enough parties can already track what we do online. Why should we pay Cisco for the privilege of adding them to that list?

samarudge 14y ago

I assume (hope) this doesn't include enterprise products.

quesera 14y ago

Well, the linked page crashes embedded WebKit, mobile Safari, and Instapaper. So I can only scan it quickly before it disappears. Cisco is consumer-dumb/hostile, and out of touch in many ways, but I'm highly skeptical of this claim. There's a link that seems to be included as supporting evidence, but I can't click it before it disappears. If anyone can copy it here, please do.

greenyoda 14y ago
Link to original news article: Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion http://www.extremetech.com/computing/132142-ciscos-cloud-vision-mandatory-monetized-and-killed-at-their-discretion http://www.extremetech.com/computing/132142-ciscos-cloud-vis...
- quesera 14y ago
  OK, my skepticism was misplaced. Thanks for posting the link. Cisco is entirely emphatically in the wrong here. I think this is indicative of a much bigger problem than the article suggests. Cisco is falling way behind in their core hardware market (routers and switches), losing in VoIP, never could write acceptable software, failed and unwound their consumer services push from a few years back (social networking sw), abandoned their consumer non-networking hardware (Flip, that tablet thing), and are now getting tone-deaf "creative" in their low-margin consumer networking hardware (Linksys) division?? What's left?? Scientific Atlanta set top boxes? Not to be overly dramatic, but this speaks very very poorly for Cisco's vision of itself, and I think we can learn something here. Chambers is starting to look a lot like Ballmer. The clock is ticking.

antidoh 14y ago

If I had one of these (I have an older Linksys), I'm pretty sure I'd go buy one from some other company, then take my formerly viable Linksys router, smash it to bits, put it and a fuck you note in a box and send it to Cisco.