Cisco Ships Mexican Folk Music On VPN Client CD

jemduff writes "So we receive our brand new firewall from CISCO and all goes well with the setup... until we try to upgrade our VPN client and we discovered that the installation CDs from CISCO contain 12 tracks of Mexican music!!? Not too bad if you're into that kind of music ... too bad if you need to get onto your corporate network. How much did those routers cost, again? 5,000,000 pesos?"

Mexican here, shedding some light

[Tatisimo]

The song sample is one of the crappy bootleg remixes that wanna be DJs sell on swap meets. Also, it's crappy "Narco Corridos" (check out what wikipedia has to say http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcocorrido [wikipedia.org]), a genre that some songwriter friends of mine define as "the cancer that is killing Mexican music". The first thing is the cliche echo deep voice, frequent in remix CDs, followed by some guy singing about how much he loves drugs. Oh, and the pic is totally unrelated. I've never heard narco corridos played by a mariachi band!

Not that this will help solve the mystery, but whoever pulled this prank has a very poor taste in music, I'd say.

Re:Backdoor found on Cisco VPN Software

[proverbialcow]

The blackdoor is known as "La puerta Negra"

Fixed it for you.