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Symantec To Acquire PGP and GuardianEdge

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-that's-different dept.

An anonymous reader noticed the news that Symantec has bought PGP and Guardian Edge for $370 million. They plan to standardize their encryption stuff on PGP keys.

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  1. suckitude by SoupGuru · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let the soul sucking begin!

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    1. Re:suckitude by Virak · · Score: 5, Informative

      GnuPG is what you're looking for.

    2. Re:suckitude by Em+Emalb · · Score: 5, Informative

      Not off-topic at all.

      Symantec will more than likely manage to screw this up just like they screw everything else up. Seriously, once upon a time their virus stuff was good. Now, you've gotta jump through hoops to remove it, their enterprise-level customer service is garbage, so I can only imagine how bad their home user support must be, and at some point their code base for the AV stuff grew so bloated you could run a Toyota (poorly) off it.

      What's wrong with pointing out that they're simply gonna screw it up?

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    3. Re:suckitude by Locklin · · Score: 4, Informative

      It *is* uniform if you pick one of the available GUI's and standardize on it.

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  2. Not bad by Mikkeles · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's Pretty Good Proprietory!

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  3. Open Source Alternative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    GPG is out there { http://www.gnupg.org/ } and we should use it.

    Privacy is a human right. Democracy can't work if it's citizens are controlled like slaves in the roman empire.

    Freedom is ours to take! Long live the RPG!

    1. Re:Open Source Alternative by wealthychef · · Score: 5, Funny

      Freedom is ours to take! Long live the RPG!

      Rocket propelled grenades?

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    2. Re:Open Source Alternative by jack2000 · · Score: 4, Funny

      And the sniper rifle. I've always been a stay out of harms way type of player:)

  4. Re:Scary by dgatwood · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just another enterprise company that Symantec will acquire, make a half-hearted attempt to integrate it into their company, then systematically lay off all the workers, outsource product development to India, release a nearly completely nonfunctional successor to it, and eventually cancel it outright after the support contract revenue dries up. I've seen this worthless company pull this stunt too many times to expect anything different.

    Note to CEOs: getting acquired by Symantec is corporate suicide. If you care at all about your employees or your product, the correct answer is not "no", but rather "hell f**king no". Just saying.

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  5. Re:Lol by CondeZer0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    > PGP was bloatware before. Now that the most talented producer of bloatware in the world (Symantec) bought it, the PGP software will might soon win the bloatware of the year award.

    If Adobe bought Symantec I suspect the massive concentration of bloat would cause the creation of a super massive black hole that would eat instantaneously eat up the whole solar system.

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  6. What is this, aquire and merger week? by frambris · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everybody seems to buy eachother this week. By the end of the year the Internet is run by three companies: MicroApple (software), HP (hardware) and Ciscoogle (Internet)

  7. Encrypt file containers, partitions with TrueCrypt by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 5, Informative

    TrueCrypt is reliable, reputable, fast, free, open source, and works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

    The TrueCrypt documentation is very good, but not perfect.

    TrueCrypt can encrypt a file that contains other files (a drive letter) or encrypt an entire partition, even the boot partition.

    No one I know has any connection with TrueCrypt. We are just happy users.

  8. Re:Oh. My. God. by Amouth · · Score: 4, Funny

    I work for a giant TLA. ... We're headed straight to hell, aren't we?

    humm I believe you have already arrived

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  9. This is fantastic! by JonJ · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've always wanted encryption-software from people who can't write a fucking uninstaller properly.

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