Feds break up Chinese-US counterfeit Cisco ring Federal lawmen have announced success in breaking up a "sophisticated scheme to import and sell counterfeit Cisco-branded computer networking equipment" in the USA, masterminded by a Virginia woman who made millions from the scam. Chun-Yu Zhao, of Centreville in Virginia and Donald H Cone, of Frederick in Maryland, were …
"JDC Networking Inc altered Cisco products by using pirated software, and created labels and packaging in order to mislead consumers into believing the products it sold were genuine Cisco products."
So, they performed unauthorized upgrades? Article makes it sound like the hardware was genuine, they just messed with the firmware. Probably still not kosher, and Cisco wouldn't like it, but not exactly selling counterfeit hardware.
It'd be intuitive to describe a Cisco-manufactured box running non-Cisco software as a 'Modified Cisco product'; Given, though, that the bulk of the functionality in most of these kinds of devices is in software, it'd probably be more accurate if much less intuitive so to describe Cisco software running on 3rd-party hardware.
I'd imagine plod are specifying this interpretation so's to give themselves a bigger hammer with which to hit the perps ...
I find it amazing how they can copy Cisco equipment so well.
Just look at these side by side comparisons:
http://www.usedcisco.com/used_cisco_identifying_fake_chisco
This is not your run of the mill factory copying t-shirts or DVDs. I've probably used some myself even without knowing.
It would be nice if this article actually explained what they were selling and how. Is this Cisco hardware or not?
"JDC Networking Inc altered Cisco products by using pirated software, and created labels and packaging in order to mislead consumers into believing the products it sold were genuine Cisco products"
What kind of product uses Cisco hardware running Cisco software but is somehow fraudulent? Were they simply adding cheap add-on PCBs to a real chassis?
You seem to have taken a technical story and removed all the technical from it :(
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