Belkin

Belkin

Infobox_Company
company_name = Belkin International, Inc.
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = 1983
location = Compton, California
key_people = Chet Pipkin, Founder and CEO; Mark Reynoso, President
industry = Computer hardware
revenue = unknown
num_employees = 1200
products = Computer hardware
homepage = [http://www.belkin.com/ www.belkin.com]

Belkin International, Inc. is a global manufacturer of computer hardware which specializes in connectivity devices. Belkin sells primarily in the consumer and home user market, but they also make routers, switches, hubs (USB and computer network), cables, uninterruptible power supply devices (UPSs), KVM switches, and other peripherals.

The company was founded in 1983 in Hawthorne, California by current CEO Chet Pipkin. It has twice made the "Inc." magazine's list of 500 fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States. At present, Belkin is headquartered in Compton, California.

Criticism

In 2003 Belkin released a home use wireless router which would occasionally replace user's HTTP requests with an advertisement for Belkin's filtering software. Belkin received some intense criticism for this from technically literate customers and others who described it as a man-in-the-middle attack or a form of session hijacking. Belkin initially treated this as a public relations problem rather than a highly inappropiate action on their part, but later relented and removed this intentional malfunction from their products. [cite web|title=Help! my Belkin router is spamming me | The Register|url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/07/help_my_belkin_router/ 080205 theregister.co.uk] [cite web|title=Slashdot | Belkin Routers Route Users to Censorware Ad|url=http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/07/1740205 080205 yro.slashdot.org] [cite web|title=CastleCops - Web hijack riles Belkin router users|url=http://castlecops.com/a4056-Web_hijack_riles_Belkin_router_users.html 080205 castlecops.com] [cite web|title=Web hijack riles Belkin router users | CNET News.com|url=http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-5104863.html 080205 news.com.com] [cite web|title=Web hijacking by router - a new method of advertisement by Belkin|url=http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2003-11/msg00228.html 080205 merit.edu]

References

External links

* [http://www.belkin.com/ Belkin (US)]
* [http://www.belkin.co.uk/ Belkin (UK)]


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