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Cisco CEO asks Obama to curtail surveillance, according to reports
Washington Post ^ | May 18, 2014 | BY KATIE ZEZIMA

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cisco; internet; johnchambers; nationalsecurity; nsa; security; surveillance
Buying IT hardware from US firms comes with ObamaScript pre-installed.
1 posted on 05/18/2014 3:43:04 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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/


2 posted on 05/18/2014 3:54:13 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mr. Chambers should have his taxes for the last 15 or 20 years double checked.


4 posted on 05/18/2014 3:57:00 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: jacknhoo

Boy, I really botched this post. Thanks for the correction. Guess I’m getting Olde ...


5 posted on 05/18/2014 4:19:56 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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.

Only in government are the people who are responsible for creating and perpetuating a problem considered good candidates for fixing it without consequences.

6 posted on 05/18/2014 4:23:49 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I wonder what the Silicon Valley folks who supported Obama TWO TIMES are thinking as they find themselves on the receiving end of his agenda.

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.

7 posted on 05/18/2014 4:43:44 PM PDT by Baynative (How much longer will the media be able to prop up this administration?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

bookmark.


8 posted on 05/18/2014 5:30:14 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: Baynative

John Chambers is a conservative.


9 posted on 05/18/2014 7:50:56 PM PDT by what's up (sun)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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?


10 posted on 05/18/2014 7:57:22 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL-GALT-DELETE])
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To: what's up

If true, my mistake. That would make him an anomaly in both his neighborhood and industry.


11 posted on 05/18/2014 7:57:59 PM PDT by Baynative (How much longer will the media be able to prop up this administration?)
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To: null and void

Ping.


12 posted on 05/18/2014 7:59:24 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Buying IT hardware from US firms comes with ObamaScript pre-installed.

...in addition to the back doors the PLA installed in the Chinese made chip-sets.

13 posted on 05/18/2014 8:01:58 PM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

14 posted on 05/18/2014 8:19:57 PM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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The letter follows the circulation of pictures on the Internet showing NSA staff opening boxes of Cisco gear, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. "There have been allegations that the NSA has intercepted IT equipment in transit from manufacturers to customers to help monitor and gain information on surveillance targets," the paper wrote.

I wonder what carrier is allowing this interception? Fedx or DHS or USPS or UPS?

15 posted on 05/18/2014 10:44:52 PM PDT by blueplum
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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.

 

16 posted on 05/19/2014 7:25:50 AM PDT by zeugma (Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened - Dr. Seuss)
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To: what's up

“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.


17 posted on 05/19/2014 8:04:43 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: RFEngineer

He might well be a conservative. I know quite a few conservatives who really can’t be bothered with several parts of the Constitution.


18 posted on 05/19/2014 8:15:16 AM PDT by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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