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Re: Morning Metaverse |
Jul 6, 2012, 15:41 |
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Kitkoan wrote on Jul 6, 2012, 11:50:
Beamer wrote on Jul 6, 2012, 10:45:
nin wrote on Jul 6, 2012, 10:33:
Cisco backpedals after uproar, drops cloud from default router setting.
Glad they reconsidered, though it never should have been forced on people to begin with. No way in hell I'd buy one of those...
I'm fine with them forcing it, I mean those routers are sold with that as a feature and if that's what they want that's what they want (I see some benefit to it, too, but, like, a marginal once-in-10-years kind of event.)
I'm just not cool with them rolling it out to people that had already been using the device prior. That's a drastic change. But people buying it now? It says on the box it's a cloud control, no big deal if it's the default - it's a selling point.
I'll stick with routers whose firmware I can replace, anyway. Probably need to replace my Linux powered Linksys (54GL?) but not for a while.
Does it say on the box Cloud control required/only interface? And that it is collecting your information as its being passed through?
Its one thing to mention a feature, its another when its the feature is the only thing you can use and that its spying on you
Spying? What do you think Cisco learns from this? What value could any of it have? That's nuts. They can't gain a single bit of information useful to them, they're too large to sell this info to anyone, and they can't gain anything your ISP doesn't have huge records on.
And it wasn't the only thing you could use, they've always had instructions on how to go back to non-cloud based.
You're really blowing this out of proportion. This isn't some big evil company forcing you to be spied on against your will, this is a big stupid company that thinks "cloud" is a buzzword people want and thinks it's a selling point. Remember when everything was suddenly "smart," even though it made no sense? Now everything is "cloud." |
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