Breach of trust

[unixronin]

sierra_nevada found this Inquirer article, which claims that the popular ZoneAlarm personal firewall secretly sends data to Israeli parent company CheckPoint.

This, of course, leads me to wonder whether Checkpoint Firewall-1 has ever been audited for any malicious behavior....

Comments

[databeast.livejournal.com]

from what I know, yes, there's actually several places where FW-1 is banned for use, like on SIPR/NIPRnet.

FWIW: most of the CALEA units out there (the combined wiretap/E911 units on the phone systems) have been p0wned by Mossad for years. I saw this all the time working at Qwest, but didnt have the authority to touch those machines to do anything about it..

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

That's interesting. You'd think there'd be some official interest .....

[databeast.livejournal.com]

there is, I think it reads as follows

"We can't afford to piss off Israel too, let them do whatever they want"