I must've missed that, since I still own stock in Cisco. Does that mean that I've been acquired by the PRC?

I'm curious, can't find anything that supports your contention that Cisco Systems is owned by "a company out of the PRC..." can you provide a link or a reference to that statement?

JohnE

Let me see what I can dig up- it was about four years ago, it was either an acquisition, merger with the Chinese firm being the bigger partner, or a strategic alliance to gain access to the PRC fabs that involved signing over everything in terms of tech specs to the fabricators. Take me a bit to track it down.

End of the story is, if it is Cisco, someone with a taste for messing with western networks can change the design at the shop and/or has all the source code and hardware schematics

Becuase security is like redundant systems- the bean counters see things that aren't actively building profit as generally not having value.