Cisco Accused of Orchestrating Engineer's Arrest 160
alphadogg writes "Cisco Systems orchestrated the arrest of Multiven founder Peter Alfred-Adekeye last year in order to force a settlement of Multiven's antitrust lawsuit against Cisco, a Multiven executive said on Wednesday. Multiven, an independent provider of service and support for networking gear, sued Cisco in 2008, alleging that the company monopolized the market for its software. Cisco countersued, charging that Alfred-Adekeye hacked into Cisco's computers and stole copyrighted software. In May 2010, Alfred-Adekeye was arrested in Vancouver, Canada, on 97 counts of intentionally accessing a protected computer system without authorization for the purposes of commercial advantage, according to his arrest warrant. He could be sentenced to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted. The arrest came to light only this week after local Vancouver press reported it."
Re:MateWan (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:I have long been annoyed by Cisco business poli (Score:5, Interesting)
According to what I read, the "evidence" to support his arrest has not been produced and delivered to the Canadian authorities. The claim of intrusion was made by Cisco to the US Secret Service. (The US Secret Service wouldn't just do this without a complaint or someone in high places issuing the directive after all.)
So this guy was arrested on criminal charges for which no evidence has been provided. This smells "not right" somehow.
Re:I don't understand how this is 'orchestrating' (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:I have long been annoyed by Cisco business poli (Score:3, Interesting)
After multihoming one of our offices, it was quite a revelation to me when one of our lines went some some months later. Nobody even noticed, except me. That gave me the freedom to fix the problem without having to worry about whether I should tell management to send people home. Also, being able to SSH in from home to fix a routing issue? How f'ing cool is that?