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

[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

This is hardly the first time that a privatized PTT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatel) with ties to its national intelligence gathering agency (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DGSE) buggers CPE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_premises_equipment) that it manufactures with what appears (rather suspiciously) to be a cryptographically protected backdoor that allows monitoring of the traffic on all attached networks, undocumented, and unbeknownst to the large ISPs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_Bell) that were buying said CPE.

It's quite embarassing (http://web.morons.org/article.jsp?id=188) (not to mention expensive when your major buyer cancels $300m of orders) when you get caught out like that.