RE: Israeli Software Company Faces U.S. Probe

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

> > The objections by the FBI and Pentagon were partly over specialized
intrusion detection software known as "Snort," which guards some classified
U.S. military and intelligence computers. 

This sounds perilously close to complete nonsense. I'm guessing from the
story that the real issue for the government is that Sourcefire has some
important contracts protecting sensitive classified systems and that the
software is not straight Snort. OTOH, Snort is GPL; is it possible that they
are concerned about a GPL program falling into the wrong hands?

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 


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