Thread: Cisco stealth snooping?

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When you use the Service, we may keep track of certain information related to your use of the Service, including but not limited to the status and health of your network and networked products; which apps relating to the Service you are using; which features you are using within the Service infrastructure; network traffic (e.g., megabytes per hour); Internet history; how frequently you encounter errors on the Service system and other related information (“Other Information”).

This paragraph has been excised entirely from the current version of the Supplemental Privacy Policy [2], but that proves nothing — Cisco has the right to update its privacy policy at any time, without legal penalty. Both versions of the document contain a further statement that may raise a few eyebrows. The next-to-last sentence reads: “In some cases, in order to provide an optimal experience on your home network, some updates may still be automatically applied, regardless of the auto-update setting.”
In a plot twist that could’ve been predicted by an eight-year old, users were enraged at having their routers stealth-updated, angry at being forced to register for a cloud service that provides no benefit whatsoever, concerned about privacy implications of the original Privacy Supplement, and unhappy at being initially told that there would be no way to roll back to the earlier firmware. Cisco has since retracted this and has provided a public link to the old firmware and a detailed guide on updating the router.

Grrrr - silly companies and their buzzword fanaticism. I wonder if DDWRT has drivers for the latest e4500 Cisco router.....hmmm

I love Cisco at the enterprise/Data Center level...I hate them at the home user level. Who are they to judge what people want to do on the internet?

I'm sure you can probably get the DD-WRT working...as Wile said, check their forums I'd bet somebody has managed it.

Originally Posted by RAWRKITTY

I love Cisco at the enterprise/Data Center level...I hate them at the home user level. Who are they to judge what people want to do on the internet?

I'm sure you can probably get the DD-WRT working...as Wile said, check their forums I'd bet somebody has managed it.

Yeah - I don't have the hardware yet. blackgold was asking about that model and showed me the link. Thought I'd kick it over to my techie friends here to see if anyone had DD-WRT'd this model yet.

I use it too (my old linksys router is ddwrt, newer dlink might also be soon).

Thanks