Re: Zone Alarm (Now OT)

[Joseph Tainter]

P.S. Zone Alarm is apparently put out by CheckPoint, which is one of 
those companies that collects and collates information on all of us. 
Isn't CheckPoint the company that had records on several hundred 
thousand consumers stolen a few months ago?

I have heard that the Pentagon (or maybe NSA) has a contract with 
CheckPoint, which will complement the data on us that NSA has been 
getting from the telephone companies. The government has been claiming 
that individuals can't be identified from the phone company data. But if 
the phone company data are married to the CheckPoint data, it is 
apparently a different matter.

I'm not trying to start a battle here. I'm just a little shocked to see 
that Zone Alarm is owned by CheckPoint, a company I had understood to be 
the enemy.

I will see if Zone Alarm behaves itself. If not, I will uninstall it and 
go back to the Windows firewall.

Joe