BACK in 2010 Cisco came under fire for what seemed like back doors in its routers. Well, Cisco sales have sunk overseas, so intelligence services seem to already know what Cisco is up to [1]. Meanwhile, there are decent alternatives in the making. Richard Stallman expressed interest in the Brisbane-based Open router project that we mentioned earlier this month. This project raised four thousand dollars recently [2] (a lot of development can involve integration, e.g. of Vyatta with hardware).
Chinese may see NSA revelations as a chance for payback for battle with Huawei.
A PwC survey released only last week found that 22% of German companies now see the risk of using cloud services as ‘very high,’ up from 6% before the leak; 54% overall say that risk is ‘high or very high.’
Almost 40% said they were now looking at email encryption and 25% at encryption of mobile communications while another 15% want to switch to European tech providers that are not cooperating with American or British intelligence services. But how big the fallout will be is yet to be seen.
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Needs Sunlight
2013-12-11 11:51:46
What's needed is more publicity of established sites where such technology is already used in production to reach the do-it-in-house crowd. However, there are a lot of managers that want off-the-shelf with irrational fervor. These can only be reached by companies offering ready "solutions" from a catalog. Such companies can make progress, but will have a hard time beating the marketing budget (including "free" "training" and "free" meals) of Cisco.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2013-12-11 21:27:28
Needs Sunlight
2013-12-11 21:32:30
It would mean a lot of kernel work though. That's not an area where Canonical has historically been active.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2013-12-11 22:28:23