The NSA’s wide-ranging surveillance programme should be curtailed, says hardware-maker Cisco in a letter to President Obama.Cisco boss John Chambers said faith in US technology companies was being eroded by the NSA’s activities.The letter comes after whistleblowers revealed the NSA regularly intercepted Cisco hardware to help it gather information on potential targets.
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Cisco Systems Inc’s chief executive officer has written a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to curtail government surveillance after evidence circulated showing the National Security Agency had intercepted Cisco equipment, a company spokesman said on Sunday.In a letter dated May 15, John Chambers, chief executive officer and chairman of the networking equipment giant, warned of an erosion of confidence in the U.S. technology industry and called for new “standards of conduct” in how the NSA conducts its surveillance.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/05/18/uk-cisco-systems-nsa-idUKKBN0DY0S220140518
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/05/19/us-cisco-systems-nsa-idINKBN0DZ05M20140519Cisco’s Chambers Tells Obama That Surveillance Impacts Technology Sales [IDG]
Cisco Systems’ CEO John Chambers has written to U.S. President Barack Obama, asking for his intervention so that U.S. technology sales are not affected by a loss in trust as a result of reports of surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency.The letter follows reports that even as the U.S. warned customers that Chinese networking equipment may be used to spy on them, the NSA physically intercepted routers, servers and other network equipment to plant surveillance tools before repackaging the devices with a factory seal and sending the products to international customers.
http://www.cio.com/article/752952/Cisco_39_s_Chambers_Tells_Obama_That_Surveillance_Impacts_Technology_Sales
http://www.computerworld.co.nz/article/545459/cisco_chambers_tells_obama_surveillance_impacts_technology_sales/