Cisco VPN CD was full of Mexican music instead of VPN software, says blogger

The blogosphere was all in a flutter this morning over a post by Dave, a developer from Melbourne, Australia, who says his employer received a CD for a new Cisco VPN gear that contained not some "boring software" but an "audio disk with 12 tracks of Spanish music." Dave has also posted a sample from track 1. Cue some hilarious feedback to Dave's post from some readers who took the time to discover that the artist is possibly Diego Rivas, and ask whether this means that someone who purchased Diego's CD is now wondering why they have Cisco VPN software.

There's also a response from "CiscoVPN" writing that some customers received defective VPN client CDs and that those can be identified by the marking ending "MX21511/4" etched on the back of the media. CiscoVPN continues: "Customers who purchased directly from Cisco will receive the replacement media directly while those who purchased from a distributor/VAR should receive the replacement from whomever they placed the order."

This manufacturing gaffe reminds us of the time when Linksys mistakenly printed on its product box a number to a sex-talk chat line instead of the number to Linksys customer service.

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