Cisco has been slowly moving move into cyber security it seems
Cisco to buy network-monitoring firm SamKnows for better last-mile visibility
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Re: Cisco to buy network-monitoring firm SamKnows for better last-mile visibility
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, synthetic monitoring is totally surveillance.
To be fair: RUM is a pretty shady market. (I don't know anything about this particular company.)
RUM, as in getting samples of timing for the resources requested from your site? What's shady about that? (Or is there some other RUM concept?)
Re: Cisco to buy network-monitoring firm SamKnows for better last-mile visibility
#13Oh, cool. I used to use the site to check DSL availability at exchanges. Looks like they’ve expanded massively since then!
Re: Cisco to buy network-monitoring firm SamKnows for better last-mile visibility
#14I work at SamKnows, AMA (I know nothing)
What firewall rules can I put in place to block whatever telemetry my devices are shipping to you?
Re: Cisco to buy network-monitoring firm SamKnows for better last-mile visibility
#15Cisco has been moving from their position of a networking powerhouse to that of a surveillance cog.
Yeah, synthetic monitoring is totally surveillance.
What do you mean, they clearly spell out how little they collect, in their privacy policy:
> The amount of personally identifiable information stored by SamKnows is limited to; name, email, and address. All metadata and personally identifiable information is both encrypted at rest and in transit on SamKnows servers. It is never stored or transmitted to or from the test agent
See? Nothing to worry about, just your name, email and address. Very little that could actually pinpoint who you are or where you are.
Re: Cisco to buy network-monitoring firm SamKnows for better last-mile visibility
#16Re: Cisco to buy network-monitoring firm SamKnows for better last-mile visibility
#17Cisco has been slowly moving move into cyber security it seems
Slowly? They started buying security companies in the late 90s. They bought Sourcefire back in 2013. They’ve been at this a while now.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
What firewall rules can I put in place to block whatever telemetry my devices are shipping to you?
Presumably don't enable that feature or don't install the software?
Most likely deployment scenario is that the ISP has installed it in their home router, it's not running in their own device.
Re: Cisco to buy network-monitoring firm SamKnows for better last-mile visibility
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, synthetic monitoring is totally surveillance.
What do you mean, they clearly spell out how little they collect, in their privacy policy: > The amount of personally identifiable information stored by SamKnows is limited to; name, email, and address. All metadata and personally identifiable information is both encrypted at rest and in transit on SamKnows servers. It is never stored or transmitted to or from the test agent See? Nothing to worry about, just your nam…
That is only for people who volunteer to receive our custom hardware and we need the name and address to ship them the unit. For most units we have no name, address or any PII whatsoever.