On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:03:24 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > I just read the news that Checkpoint has cancelled their aquiring of > SourceFire (the company who makes "Snort". You can see the article (in > hebrew) here: > http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3231753,00.html > > I have played a bit with Snort few years ago, and I think it's a good tool. > What I don't understand is why the U.S is so "affraid" to sell it to a > company like Check point? it was open source in their previous version > so there's not many "top secret" stuff inside..
It is not about the software, it is about support. Some defense departments are using this software with SourceFire support and they are afraid that Israel might spy on them (remember Polard ?). Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
