Posted on 05/18/2014 3:43:04 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Cisco CEO John Chambers has sent a letter to President Obama calling for rules ensuring that both needs of national security and product integrity are met, according to reports.
The Financial Times and Re/code are reporting that Chambers sent a letter dated May 15 to Obama, warning that confidence in an open Internet is being "eroded by revelations of governments' surveillance" and asking him to create new standards of conduct about how the government collects data.
"Absent a new approach where industry plays a role, but in which you, Mr. President, can lead, we are concerned that our country's global technological leadership will be impaired. Moreover, the result could be a fragmented Internet, where the promise of the next Internet is never fully realized," the letter reads.
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Cisco CEO asks Obama to curtail surveillance, according to reports
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/05/18/cisco-ceo-asks-obama-to-curtail-surveillance-according-to-reports/
Mr. Chambers should have his taxes for the last 15 or 20 years double checked.
Boy, I really botched this post. Thanks for the correction. Guess I’m getting Olde ...
Only in government are the people who are responsible for creating and perpetuating a problem considered good candidates for fixing it without consequences.
This guy reminds me of the two faced William Devane who campaigned for Obama and is now on TV hawking gold as a way to protect one's self from the economy his advocacy helped produce.
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John Chambers is a conservative.
Genie is out of the bottle, now. Does Chambers think an empty promise from Obama is enough to get Cisco’s international router sales back to where they were?
If true, my mistake. That would make him an anomaly in both his neighborhood and industry.
Ping.
...in addition to the back doors the PLA installed in the Chinese made chip-sets.
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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I wonder what carrier is allowing this interception? Fedx or DHS or USPS or UPS?
All of the above if they don't want their people to be murdered by Fedgov.
It's all pretty straightforward.
“John Chambers is a conservative.”
John Chambers willingly cooperated with the government to enable spying on Americans and anyone else who bought his equipment. His company probably got paid to do so as well.
You would be a fool to buy his equipment today, unless you truly don’t mind being monitored and have that information eventually used against you by an increasingly tyrannical government.
John Chambers is not a conservative, as he would have to be more interested in the Constitution and individual liberty for that to be true.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I doubt it.
He might well be a conservative. I know quite a few conservatives who really can’t be bothered with several parts of the Constitution.
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