Feds Kill Check Point's Sourcefire Bid

Caffeinated Geek writes to tell us The Register is reporting that Check Point Software has removed their bid to buyout rival software company Sourcefire following objections from the FBI and the Pentagon to the Treasury's Committee on Foreign Investments. From the article: "Federal agency objections to the security software tie-up center on the implementation of Sourcefire's anti-intrusion software 'Snort' by the Bureau and Department of Defense, AP reports. In private meetings between the panel and Check Point, FBI and Pentagon officials took exception to letting foreigners acquire the sensitive technology."

Comments

Purely Political

[SailorBob]

Snort is an Open Source program, which means that it's source code is already available to the Chinese, Iranians and anyone else who wants it. I assume that Sourcefire's closed source products are based in one way or another on the technology in Snort, which makes it very difficult to understand the FBI and Pentagon's objections other than in the context of an anti-Israel political decision.

I geuss the FBI has the resources to hunt down and entrap Jewish political lobbyists but not to catch terrorists or say anything about a terrorist supporting Arab state taking over the country's ports.

I guess

[Jachra]

the DOD and FBI can not trust the Mossad these days to protect there interrest.