Outrageously Prolonging Obsolete Cisco Junk with Deceptive SmartCare Scam

CORPORATIONS ARE PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH YOUR DATA. A SHOCKING NEW REPORT reveals that businesses, including hospitals and banks, are being encouraged to run CRITICAL infrastructure on dangerously outdated, unsupported tech to save a dime. This RECKLESS strategy, cynically branded as ‘sweating assets,’ is a ticking time bomb for national security and personal privacy.

Hardware Distribution’s “SmartCare” service is at the heart of this scandal, PROLONGING the life of DEAD Cisco equipment that the original manufacturer has declared obsolete and UNSECURE. Managing Director Gail Holt brazenly admits they are pushing companies to ignore vendor warnings, stating the quiet part loud: “SmartCare gives customers an alternative that puts business priorities, not OEM timelines, first.” This is a CORPORATE MANTRA for DISASTER.

Imagine: your hospital’s network, your bank’s firewall, your city’s traffic control—all running on hardware so old Cisco WON’T TOUCH IT. These “zombie networks” are PRIME TARGETS for hackers, facing catastrophic failure with only a next-business-day “solution” promised. This isn’t innovation; it’s a PROFIT-DRIVEN BET that YOUR safety is an acceptable cost.

Resellers are now complicit in this scheme, using services like SmartCare to fulfill public sector tenders for equipment that SHOULD BE IN A GRAVEYARD. They’re locking us into a digital dark age of constant vulnerability to fund their bottom line. The system is being rigged to fail, and you will be left holding the pieces.

We are normalizing technological decay for shareholder profit, building our future on a foundation of digital sand. Your reality is now held together by corporate tape and a prayer.