On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net> wrote:
They are playing our love of "But Wait There's More!". Give us everything at deep discounts or for free and receive direct access to the core of every major telecom company on the planet. For a few hundred million dollars the Chinese government has intelligence on anyone or anything world wide, and their agents are welcomed with open arms.
both cisco and juniper do this as well.. with phone-home full show-tech-equivalent data collection systems... all pushed into an internal DB ready for marketing/etc... I'm sure other vendors (ALU/etc) all do this as well... the addition of 'Dedicated Support Engineers' sitting in your faciltiy is neat, but also not 'new' wrt cisco/juniper. (I also happen to think that this is probably the method most likely used to exfil data of interest)