[liberationtech] Why Bluecoat?

[Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)]

On 4/6/13 11:50 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been thinking about this for a while, and can't find a logical
reason. Possibly I'm not thinking about it hard enough.
>
> I'm curious as to why Bluecoat seem to be singled out for all this
attention regarding use in countries where the governments are "not
nice"? Is it because they are a public, well known company? A lot the
same stories repeat the same stories of Bluecoat equipment being used in
the same oppressive regimes.
>
> As someone who worked in ISP level infrastructure for a while
(thankfully no longer), I've seen the equipment used "for neutral uses"
- network management, etc.
That's activism, you need an enemy to fight even if they have no
concrete liability!

Do we want to speak about Cisco protecting North Korea infrastructure? :-)

$ nc mail.silibank.com 25
220
******************************************************************************
expn let-me-see-if-this-is-cisco-ASA-smtp-fixup
500 5.5.1 Command unrecognized: "XXXX
let-me-see-if-this-is-cisco-ASA-smtp-fixup"

* North Korean's Silibank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sili_Bank
* Cisco ASA/PIX: http://www.squiggle.org/2009/01/fixup-on-cisco-firewalls/

Fabio

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