News Cisco to Pay $8.6M for Knowingly Selling Hackable Surveillance Gear to US Government

[Admin]

Cisco has agreed to a settlement with whistleblower James Glenn, the U.S. federal government and multiple state governments over its surveillance technology.

Cisco to Pay $8.6M for Knowingly Selling Hackable Surveillance Gear to US Government : Read more

 

[CKKwan]

Should have bought Dahua or HIK or even Huawei instead

 

[bit_user]

The interesting part of this is the use of whistleblower law to raise cybersecurity issues.

I wonder if Cisco engineers its own surveillance equipment or just imports & rebrands someone else's.

 

[bit_user]

Should have bought Dahua or HIK or even Huawei instead

Well, the main thing nowadays is to have certification and testing.

I don't think any brand can simply trade on "trust", any more.

 

[AnimeMania]

I thought the US government wanted all tech companies to put backdoors into all of their hardware and software. What changed?

 

[Deleted member 1353997]

Cisco shouldn't have to pay anything. The government wanted them to add backdoors and so they did.
They got what every competent security expert said they'd get.