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[siljaline]

Those using ZA will now what this is regarding.
(http://forums.zonealarm.com/showthread.php?t=75332)

Silj


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[siljaline]

"siljaline" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message news:i71s0k$bt8$1@news.eternal-september.org...
Those using ZA will now what this is regarding.
(http://forums.zonealarm.com/showthread.php?t=75332)

*Addendum*

Tip of the hat to miekiemoes \o/

Now ZA wants you to buy-in to protect yourself from your own software !
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(http://************/14dpi7)

Silj


--
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

[siljaline]

FredW wrote:
> Please convey my thanks to Miekemoes from Brugge, Belgium
> (I keep some articles from her blog as reference.)

I shall, she will be happy to hear that news is being shared and credited to sources
where the information was first disclosed.

> I am totally flabbergasted about the mentality of Checkpoint.
> How stupid do they think users are?

One word, *(stupid)* when your Marketing & HR departments drive your company,
you no longer have a company !

This seems to be the gist of this case, a "legit" software vendor is using bait and
switch tactics - many will look elsewhere as what happened with the Comodo fiasco.

Silj


--
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_