Re: Router opinions?

Hi Mike -

On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:07:14 -0500, Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Look up Cisco Cloud Connect. They forced everyone to use their new web
service to configure their routers

As long as you know about it going in, I don't see it as being in the
class of behavior as Belkin.

Requiring cloud configuration would keep me from buying the product,
but wouldn't make me permanently boycott the whole company.

and then the policy explicitly restricted some types of web sites from being visited.

Yeah, that was stupid. I see that Cisco reversed course on that real
quick.

It wasn't clear from the couple of articles that I read quickly
whether Cisco was at any point _actually_ collecting history of user's
internet connections or not. But just the fact that they said they
could does fall in the same general class of behavior as Belkin.

Of course every manufacturer wants to collect everyone's history of
everything that they do. That's why I've pretty much dropped the idea
of ever upgrading from my old Treo phone to something newer. Not just
rogue apps, but the tracking crap that gets built right into the OS.

Ken
Opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent the views
of my employer or anyone in their right mind.