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
#2Cisco has been moving from their position of a networking powerhouse to that of a surveillance cog.
Re: Cisco to buy network-monitoring firm SamKnows for better last-mile visibility
#3Cisco has been moving from their position of a networking powerhouse to that of a surveillance cog.
Yeah, synthetic monitoring is totally surveillance.
Re: Cisco to buy network-monitoring firm SamKnows for better last-mile visibility
#4Cisco has been moving from their position of a networking powerhouse to that of a surveillance cog.
That ship sailed a long time ago, didn't it?
Re: Cisco to buy network-monitoring firm SamKnows for better last-mile visibility
#5Re: Cisco to buy network-monitoring firm SamKnows for better last-mile visibility
#6Cisco has been moving from their position of a networking powerhouse to that of a surveillance cog.
Yeah, synthetic monitoring is totally surveillance.
Another thing, is that viral video recently, where AI was able to give an explanation of the dream, the person said the sonar in Wifi routers can be transformed into showing positions of humans in buildings.
Not that recent, actually found an article from Jan this year - https://boingboing.net/2023/01/19/new-study-shows-how-to-use...
Something we should keep in mind.
Re: Cisco to buy network-monitoring firm SamKnows for better last-mile visibility
#7Congratulations to HN user samcrawford, the founder.
Re: Cisco to buy network-monitoring firm SamKnows for better last-mile visibility
#8They should buy RIPE Atlas!
Re: Cisco to buy network-monitoring firm SamKnows for better last-mile visibility
#9I work at SamKnows, AMA (I know nothing)
Re: Cisco to buy network-monitoring firm SamKnows for better last-mile visibility
#10Cisco has been moving from their position of a networking powerhouse to that of a surveillance cog.
SamKnows is not surveillance, we generate synthetic traffic for our tests from our test agents. We do monitor byte counters for the WAN interface to tell if someone else is using the connection before we run our tests, but otherwise we can't see any ongoing traffic.