
Hang these lying bastard CEOs and be done with it. These are not people that should be allowed to exist in a world that they so willingly work against.
Blue Coat Systems has fingered itself as one of a number of US companies whose Web filtering kit is being used by the Syrian government. The company has told the Wall Street Journal that the Syrian government’s online crackdown is being partly enabled by its devices. However, the filtering, WAN optimization and deep packet …
> Hang these lying bastard CEOs
Your national-socialism is duly noted. Go jump under a train, mmmokay?
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>> out of a shipment it believed was bound for Iraq.
Please explain me how this is any better? Syria is not considered an "ally" but they torture, control and put down as much as Maliki. Hell, they even torture on demand, if the US needs a quiet cellar free from any FOIA requests. I don't get it.
Ah hold on, they are "against" Israel.
"Sounds like their gear got stolen, or sold illegally.."
Or just resold by the Iraqi customers to someone in Syria - nothing illegal about that (in Iraq). There's a good chance the Iraqis ordered it on behalf of Syria in the first place.
Export controls are a bit of security theatre, once the stuff is out of American hands it's legal to do what you want with it.
I had some fun & games with Bluecoat myself.
We found that some people in Europe were being routed through their devices to our dynamic websites. And their dumb boxes were substituting query string parameters with invalid character sequences (doubly URL-encoded ampersands, for example). Net result: broken websites. I'd have probably been stuffed if they hadn't given themselves away by injecting their name into the request headers.
I thought I'd be helpful and point out to them that their boxes were making schoolboy mistakes but it didn't get me very far. In the end I implemented an inconvenient workaround for their interference in my own code.
A lovely waste of my time all round.