U.S. officials investigate Sourcefire purchase

U.S. officials investigate Sourcefire purchase
Kelly Martin, 2006-03-02

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U.S. officials investigating Sourcefire purchase 2006-03-02
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Anonymous (2 replies)

The only reason that comes to mind is they might have a fear that Isreal might try to put a backdoor or something in Snort to be used against the U.S. government, but then again its open source, anyone can try that. Maybe they don't want snort to be relicensed or something that might hurt military/intel IDS systems.

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Nothing better to do... 2006-03-03
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There's plenty of closed source programs with backdoors and rootkits and unwanted consequences 2006-03-03
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U.S. officials investigate Sourcefire purchase 2006-03-03
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