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Spy scandal to hurt Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco
- tracker1 13y agoI think that this is more about China specifically growing its internal development than it is a Snowden effect. Don't get me wrong, I'd be incredibly uncomfortable hosting a non-US site reliant on hardware or software for countries very complicit with the illegal data retention of the NSA for years now. I think that freedom and liberty are very important, and that our own government has consistently compromised both for the benefit of a small few.
- MichaelMoser123 13y agoI am not sure; Here they say that CISCO also down in Brasil, Mexico, India and Russia http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2013/11/14/nsa-spying-crushes-us-tech-companies-in-emerging-markets-an.html http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2013/11/14/nsa-spying-cr... I guess because of these sophisticated man in the middle attacks that the NSA is doing lately; I guess one has to fiddle a lot with BGP routing tables for these ... What I don't understand is: why are Chinese routers supposed to be more secure? absurd!
- deckiedan 13y agoOne of my managers asked me to look at Cisco 'Meraki' as a possible provisioning system for our work Macs last week. Although it does look rather nice, the interface certainly is user-friendly and fast, I'm extremely uncomfortable handing root permissions for all of our macs to a US based company (or any company, to be honest). It really isn't long until being a USA based company is going to be a real problem for anyone wanting to offer any kind of IT services outside of the States.
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