{"id":2533,"date":"2012-07-09T16:07:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T16:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/jul\/09\/ciscos-backtrack-connect-cloud-taking-privacy-granted\/"},"modified":"2012-07-09T16:07:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T16:07:03","slug":"ciscos-backtrack-on-connect-cloud-taking-privacy-for-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ciscos-backtrack-on-connect-cloud-taking-privacy-for-granted\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco&#8217;s backtrack on Connect Cloud &#8211; taking privacy for granted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco has been forced to apologise for what Home Networking Vice President Brett Wingo described as &ldquo;confusion and inconvenience&rdquo; following the rolling out of their Connect Cloud system.<\/p>\n<p>The issue concerns a cloud-based update Cisco made to their Linksys EA2700, EA3500 and EA4500 firmware which had originally been rolled out automatically to users&rsquo; routers.<\/p>\n<p>The update took many users by surprise, and they weren&rsquo;t best pleased about it either, with complaints ranging from security concerns on cloud-based LAN administration to privacy fears.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco has since released instructions on how to roll back the automatically updated firmware to the previous iteration.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post, Wingo said that the Connect Cloud service was available to those who had opted in to automatic updates and that data was not being illicitly stored &ldquo;consistent with Cisco&rsquo;s practices&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps worryingly, the privacy concerns related to the original Cisco Connect Cloud terms of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco has been forced to apologise for what Home Networking Vice President Brett Wingo described as &ldquo;confusion and inconvenience&rdquo; following the rolling out of their Connect Cloud system.<br \/>\nThe issue concerns a cloud-based update Cisco made to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}