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CheckPoint Acquires Snort

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the done-sniffing-each-other dept.

bobdehnhardt writes "The Snort-announce list was burning with the news that CheckPoint has signed an agreement to acquire Sourcefire, the commercial arm of the Snort community. As part of the agreement, CheckPoint will "continue to develop and distribute Snort under the GPL, improve and document the program to stay on the cutting edge and expand the snort.org web site." Here is a message from Snort creator Marty Roesch."

2 of 118 comments (clear)

  1. Re:SnortFIRST by Puttu001 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The GPL nature will be gone soon. Checkpoint is one such a company where everything is their own standard and as others suggest it they will soon fork their own version.

  2. Re:SnortFIRST by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 0, Troll
    Snort will backdoor/forward everything to MOSSAD now. The Israelis will be conveniently dropped from detection.

    Fork or be F**ked.

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