Judge blasts Cisco's 'unmitigated gall' in ex-exec's arrest

Judge blasts Cisco's 'unmitigated gall' in ex-exec's arrest
Canadian jurist denies extradition of alleged 'hacker'

By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco • Get more from this author
Posted in Crime, 3rd June 2011


A Canadian judge has lambasted Cisco for its "unmitigated gall" and "duplicity" in goading US prosecutors to push for the public arrest of a former executive who was suing the US networking giant.

Justice Ronald McKinnon's comments were made on Tuesday when he ordered a stay in the extradition of the ex-exec, Peter Alfred-Adekeye, who was charged in the US with 97 criminal counts of hacking into Cisco's network following complaints by the company.

Not coincidentally, it seems, Alfred-Adekeye had filed a civil antitrust suit against Cisco in 2008, charging the company with monopolizing the service and maintenance of its networking equipment, and forcing customers to buy contracts for bug-fixes, patches, and updates.

Alfred-Adekeye was arrested in a trendy Vancouver, BC hotel in May 2010 while in the middle of testifying at a hearing on the antitrust suit before US court officials and four Cisco lawyers. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/03/cisco_charged_with_duplicity/

Sirota at Salon took it on:

http://www.salon.com/news/department_of_justice/?story=/news/david_sirota/2011/06/06/cisco_law_enforcement

...... one from Canada and one from the UK.

American media? Weinergate.

I had not heard about this case.

Good for the Canadian judge who had the decency to stand up for the rule of law.

K&R