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["Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <jlguallar AT maduixa.net>]

All,

I've just read the article " Inside Cisco's eavesdropping apparatus "[1] 
about how Cisco will ship (at least some) of its products with a 
"backdoor" por law agencies (and others?) to eavesdrop the 
communications.

Did anyone knew about this? Should we be concerned? Should we be very 
carefull when shopping at cisco.com?

I don't really understand if Cisco is already binding this capabilities 
with their routers, this is just a draft or what. Please, enlighten 
someone lost trying to make sense of the article.

See: 
[1] http://news.com.com/2010-1071-997528.html?tag=fd_nc_1 

"The company recently published a proposal that describes how it plans 
to embed "lawful interception" capability into its products. Among the 
highlights: Eavesdropping "must be undetectable," and multiple police 
agencies conducting simultaneous wiretaps must not learn of one 
another. If an Internet provider uses encryption to preserve its 
customers' privacy and has access to the encryption keys, it must turn 
over the intercepted communications to police in a descrambled form."


Salut,
Josep
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