Is your firewall spying on you?

Chatacranny · Jun 12, 2007

Now, the handsomely-named Mr Cringely has revealed that a colleague of his at Infoworld noticed that Zone Alarm 6.0 was sneakily sending off data to four different servers. Cringely says that Zone Labs (acquired by Checkpoint in March of 2004) at first denied the activity for a couple of months before deciding the software had a "bug" even though, as he points out, "the instructions to contact the servers were set out in the program’s XML code."
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BearTM · Jun 13, 2007

GuiltyGear · Jun 15, 2007

ZoneAlarm can burn in hell. Haven't touched a software firewall since before I had an ISDN router with a built-in hardware firewall.

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