The Register reports about the uproar of Cisco's Linksys EA4500, EA3500, and EA2700 routers customers. An automated update installed new firmware so that they could be fully configured using only its Connect Cloud service rather than via local management software, excluding functions such as parental controls and USB storage. This Cloud connect thing raised some security concerns about the cloud service and others pointing out that the terms and conditions of the Connect Cloud service seemed rather broad, granting Cisco the right to monitor traffic and internet usage and share it with third-parties as it liked, as well as the right to disconnect service.
Cisco responded quite quickly they reversed the update and made it a choice for the customer to use Cloud connect or not. They will also change their terms of services: "The Cisco Connect Cloud service has never monitored customers’ internet usage, nor was it designed to do so, and we will clarify this in an update to the terms of service".
Either it was designed to do so or not we will never know but quite some large and small businesses were not pleased so it was a bad move which costs them credibility. Not good for a company which delivers routers and firewalls and other networking stuff.
This blog will be mainly focused on my own experiences with computers and software. Both I am using now purely as a user and hobbyist. Also I comment on interesting news about ICT, privacy and combinations of both. In deze blog zal het voornamelijk gaan over ervaringen met computers en software waar ik tegenwoordig alleen nog hobbymatig mee bezig ben en mijn commentaar op imo interessante nieuwsberichten op het gebied van ICT, privacy en de combinatie van beide.
zaterdag 7 juli 2012
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