RE: Symantec Acquires PGP

2010-05-04 Thread David W. McSpadden 
+1

-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 12:12 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Symantec Acquires PGP

On 3 May 2010 at 9:23, David W. McSpadden  wrote:

> Pretty Good Protection
> 
> To
> 
> Probably Great POS

I think you meant "Phormerly Great ..." ;-)

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Re: Symantec Acquires PGP

2010-05-03 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming 
On 3 May 2010 at 9:23, David W. McSpadden  wrote:

> Pretty Good Protection
> 
> To
> 
> Probably Great POS

I think you meant "Phormerly Great ..." ;-)

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Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/





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Re: Symantec Acquires PGP

2010-05-03 Thread Kurt Buff 
Right. I meant to say that...

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 06:04, Malcolm Reitz  wrote:
> Don't know if it is better news or not, but Secure Computing was bought by 
> McAfee, not Symantec.
>
> -Malcolm
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 23:56
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Symantec Acquires PGP
>
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:00, Jonathan Link  wrote:
>> http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci15
>> 2,00.html?track=NL-102&ad=763391&asrc=EM_NLN_11453454&uid=9835724
>>
>> FRAK!
>
> I share that sentiment. They bought Secure Computing last year, which really 
> bummed me out, because I love my Sidewinders.
>
> Kurt
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ 
> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
>
>

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RE: Symantec Acquires PGP

2010-05-03 Thread David W. McSpadden 
Pretty Good Protection

To

Probably Great POS

-Original Message-
From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 9:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Symantec Acquires PGP

Don't know if it is better news or not, but Secure Computing was bought by
McAfee, not Symantec.

-Malcolm

-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 23:56
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Symantec Acquires PGP

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:00, Jonathan Link 
wrote:
> http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci15
> 2,00.html?track=NL-102&ad=763391&asrc=EM_NLN_11453454&uid=9835724
>
> FRAK!

I share that sentiment. They bought Secure Computing last year, which really
bummed me out, because I love my Sidewinders.

Kurt

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~


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~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~





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RE: Symantec Acquires PGP

2010-05-03 Thread Malcolm Reitz 
Don't know if it is better news or not, but Secure Computing was bought by 
McAfee, not Symantec.

-Malcolm

-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 23:56
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Symantec Acquires PGP

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:00, Jonathan Link  wrote:
> http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci15
> 2,00.html?track=NL-102&ad=763391&asrc=EM_NLN_11453454&uid=9835724
>
> FRAK!

I share that sentiment. They bought Secure Computing last year, which really 
bummed me out, because I love my Sidewinders.

Kurt

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ 
<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

Re: Symantec Acquires PGP

2010-04-30 Thread Kurt Buff 
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 20:37, Angus Scott-Fleming  wrote:
> On 29 Apr 2010 at 15:01, Jon Harris  wrote:
>
>> Another company to add to my personal do not purchase list!
>
> +1, unfortunately.  Now there is really no alternative to TrueCrypt.
>
> --
> Angus Scott-Fleming
> GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
> 1-520-290-5038
> Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/

I wouldn't go quite that far:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_encryption_software

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Re: Symantec Acquires PGP

2010-04-30 Thread Kurt Buff 
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:00, Jonathan Link  wrote:
> http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci152,00.html?track=NL-102&ad=763391&asrc=EM_NLN_11453454&uid=9835724
>
> FRAK!

I share that sentiment. They bought Secure Computing last year, which
really bummed me out, because I love my Sidewinders.

Kurt

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: Symantec Acquires PGP

2010-04-29 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming 
On 29 Apr 2010 at 15:01, Jon Harris  wrote:

> Another company to add to my personal do not purchase list!

+1, unfortunately.  Now there is really no alternative to TrueCrypt.

--
Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/





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~   ~

RE: Symantec Acquires PGP

2010-04-29 Thread Mathew Shember 
We did the same!  Especially when we saw how bad their "security package" 
performed.

Oh well it was a good product but such is the way of acquisitions..



From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 4:23 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Symantec Acquires PGP


No!

And we just got over them escaping from the McAfee fold.

Oh, well.  I favor gpg and truecrypt anyway.

-ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker

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On Apr 29, 2010 2:52 PM, "Jonathan Link" 
mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com>> wrote:
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci152,00.html?track=NL-102&ad=763391&asrc=EM_NLN_11453454&uid=9835724

FRAK!










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Re: Symantec Acquires PGP

2010-04-29 Thread Andrew S. Baker 
No!

And we just got over them escaping from the McAfee fold.

Oh, well.  I favor gpg and truecrypt anyway.

-ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker

Sent from my Motorola Droid

On Apr 29, 2010 2:52 PM, "Jonathan Link"  wrote:

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci152,00.html?track=NL-102&ad=763391&asrc=EM_NLN_11453454&uid=9835724

FRAK!

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Re: Symantec Acquires PGP

2010-04-29 Thread Jon Harris 
Another company to add to my personal do not purchase list!

Jon

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jonathan Link wrote:

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> http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci152,00.html?track=NL-102&ad=763391&asrc=EM_NLN_11453454&uid=9835724
>
> FRAK!
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Symantec Acquires PGP

2010-04-29 Thread Jonathan Link 
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci152,00.html?track=NL-102&ad=763391&asrc=EM_NLN_11453454&uid=9835724

FRAK!

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