Posts by outnumbered

Apple hands €14.3bn in back taxes to reluctant Ireland

My employer recently set up a new software development centre in Ireland, with a direct negative impact on UK jobs, primarily because of the (now illegal) tax breaks that they get there.

Magic million: That's how many Cisco routers can now run SD-WAN

There have been any number of allegedly "smart" or "simple" admin solutions developed by Cisco for IOS over the years, but EVERYONE still uses their own homebrewed scripts and CLI scraping, right ?

Even if the Viptela stuff is actually any good, which it might be since Cisco didn't develop it, I'd bet that the integration with IOS is flaky as hell and incredibly constrained.

Judges dismisses majority of Cisco's 'insane' IP defence against Arista

Cisco Systems pre-dates Linux by some years.. But it's true that there was a legal dispute over the IP that the founders exited Stanford with, when starting the company. The dispute was settled with a payment that looks rather small in hindsight.

I need an ISP that offers IPv6. Virgin Media: Whatevs, nerd

Re: My tweet was mentioned...

FWIW... HE doesn't need a static IPv4 address, works fine with dynamic, including a REST API to update your endpoint address.

Cisco reports bug disclosed in WikiLeaks' Vault 7 CIA dump

Just log into any IOS router and use the online CLI help to marvel at the swathes of protocols and features that you've a) never heard of and b) nobody uses. Many of which were probably written 15 years ago with little or no thought of security. It doesn't surprise me at all that there are vulnerabilities in there. It's practically impossible to remove features from IOS, so the crud just builds up over time.

Cisco shrinks: Revenue, profit and margin all dipped in Q2 2017

NGN Routing (aka service provider) is quite cyclical anyway, but it's the continued erosion of Enterprise/DC revenue, and reducing margins, that look the most worrying.

Yep, another LR in the autumn.

UK's super-cyber-snoop shopping list: Internet data, bulk spying, covert equipment tapping

How about this from P.55 of the draft bill. It looks like in principle they are allowing themselves to collect pretty much anything. I assume that in practice they will just record all the standard Netflow 5-tuples, but the way I read this, they can ask for any data they think will help to identify something.

(9) In this Part “relevant communications data” means communications data

which may be used to identify, or assist in identifying, any of the following—

(a) the sender or recipient of a communication (whether or not a person),

(b) the time or duration of a communication,

(c) the type, method or pattern, or fact, of communication,

(d) the telecommunication system (or any part of it) from, to or through

which, or by means of which, a communication is or may be

transmitted,

(e) the location of any such system, or

(f) the internet protocol address, or other identifier, of any apparatus to

which a communication is transmitted for the purpose of obtaining

access to, or running, a computer file or computer program.

In this subsection “identifier” means an identifier used to facilitate the

transmission of a communication