On 4/6/13 11:50 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been thinking about this for a while, and can't find a logical reason. Possibly I'm not thinking about it hard enough. > > I'm curious as to why Bluecoat seem to be singled out for all this attention regarding use in countries where the governments are "not nice"? Is it because they are a public, well known company? A lot the same stories repeat the same stories of Bluecoat equipment being used in the same oppressive regimes. > > As someone who worked in ISP level infrastructure for a while (thankfully no longer), I've seen the equipment used "for neutral uses" - network management, etc. That's activism, you need an enemy to fight even if they have no concrete liability!
Do we want to speak about Cisco protecting North Korea infrastructure? :-) $ nc mail.silibank.com 25 220 ****************************************************************************** expn let-me-see-if-this-is-cisco-ASA-smtp-fixup 500 5.5.1 Command unrecognized: "XXXX let-me-see-if-this-is-cisco-ASA-smtp-fixup" * North Korean's Silibank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sili_Bank * Cisco ASA/PIX: http://www.squiggle.org/2009/01/fixup-on-cisco-firewalls/ Fabio
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