http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/09/mexican_music_vpn_cd/



By John Leyden 

The Register

9th October 2008 



A sysadmin looking to set up a VPN network was surprised to discover 

that a Cisco installation CD contained Mexican music instead of security 

software. Cisco has acknowledged the issue and said that affected 

customers will be offered replacement CDs.



Instead of the intended software, some CDs shipped to Cisco customers 

featured 12 tracks of Mexican music, including Narco Corridos tunes from 

Diego 'El Compa' Rivas. Narco Corridos songs often celebrate drug 

running, and are popular in northern Mexico but derided by some as a 

"cancer that is killing Mexican music".



The tracks seem to be poor-quality bootleg remixes of the sort typically 

created by wannabe DJs, and how these MP3s got onto software 

installation CDs is unclear. Perhaps somebody in a factory making the 

CDs pressed the wrong button on a production line computer that had also 

been used for illegal downloads.



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