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Symantec Acquires @Stake

Posted by timothy on from the assimilation dept.

halligas writes "You may have noticed that last month McAfee acquired security firm Foundstone. Not to be outdone, McAfee rival Symantec has gone out a bought up their very own bunch of hackers, @Stake."

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  1. Sorry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, of course. Symantec has a lot at stake.

  2. If you want to get purchased by Symantec by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Start your company/product with an @. First it was @Guard (today's Norton firewall), now it's @Stake. You could be next to cash in!

    1. Re:If you want to get purchased by Symantec by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Newsflash: SecurityFocus purchases a couple of @-@s from George Lucas. In response, the CHO of E-eye has told his accounting department to "pick me up an A-Wing and a TIE Interceptor...for research."

      Rumor has it that Lord Gates is planning the construction of a large satellite and has transported the blueprints through an R2 unit.

      Begun, the Hack Wars has.

    2. Re:If you want to get purchased by Symantec by Sentry21 · · Score: 5, Funny

      So that's the secret! I've been trying to market my SneezGuard firewall technology for years, but all I have to do is rename it to @Choo and I'm gold! Ah, sweet success, I can taste you now!

      --Dan

  3. the obvious question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So who is going to buy Cult of the Dead Cow?

    1. Re:the obvious question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I don't think cdc needs to be bought out. They can add themselves to any database and show themselves to be part of any company they want ;-)

    2. Re:the obvious question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
      So who is going to buy Cult of the Dead Cow?

      Burger King's Dr. Angus!

  4. "Right now I'm recovering the password... by ARRRLovin · · Score: 4, Funny

    .......from this Windows2000 box with Symantec LC5." Man.......that just sounds.....odd.

    --
    -Randy
  5. Who begat whom? by Eberlin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wasn't @stake originally some other black-hat-ish group...like l0pth or something? Next thing you know, virus/worm writers will start asking for employment at anti-virus/security firms. :)

  6. Re:Feeling old and sad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hummm... "Symantec L0phtcrack" Just doesn't have the same kind of ring, or trusability that it had before...

  7. Grrrrr NAV just deleted one of my files by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Damn thing, Its been sat on my hard drive since sp1 arrived (it was an sp1 serial changing howto document, html format), the new definitions picked it up and cleaned it out.

    Detected as "Hack tool". First ever time my weekly scan has picked up anything :(

    Not that I'm annoyed or anything.

    1. Re:Grrrrr NAV just deleted one of my files by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 2, Funny

      I wonder how many people are now diving into nortons config to double check their settings?

      --
      liqbase :: faster than paper
    2. Re:Grrrrr NAV just deleted one of my files by thegnu · · Score: 2, Funny

      I wonder how many people are, like me, mumbling something about Linux and snickering.

      *mmrrmmmrr* Linux *MMmmmrmrrmM*
      *snickers*

      --
      Please stop stalking me, bro.
  8. Re:Cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    With such a low UID, you should be ashamed of yourself.

    Now get back downstairs, we've got visitors.

  9. Re:@stake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    in other news: symantec plans to shut down internet!

  10. Great Grammar by AkaiTora1337 · · Score: 4, Funny

    McAfee rival Symantec has gone out a bought up their very own bunch of hackers, @Stake.

    What in the world does it mean to have "gone out a bought up" something?

    1. Re:Great Grammar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Have you heard of "Internet", where dumb southerners have just as much power to post stories as their northern-counterparts?

  11. Re:do you mean shedding a tear because by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    Free?

    What's the world coming to?

    You pay for the software that's full of bugs and holes

    THEN

    You pay, again to have someone protect you from those bugs and holes.

    Sh!t, it's like Detroit and the Saudi Royal Family in bed with each other... oh, wait... never mind.

    Orange Alert: Someone has figured it out in Sector 12! Paging Carl Rove! Damage Containment! Whoop! Whoop!

    --

    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  12. Re:Good and bad by Trillan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Integrity? Are we talking about the same @stake here? The ones with a long-standing habit of informing developers of security issues by going to the media and hoping that the developers happen to read one of the articles? That @stake?

    They'll fit in perfectly at Symantec.