Re: Zone Alarm from Checkpoint not Choicepoint

[Mark Erickson]

Joe, 

Please allow me to correct your erroneous email (attached below). 

Choicepoint (http://www.choicepoint.com) is the company that "...is the 
leading provider of identification and credential verification services for 
business and government."  They're the ones that got the bad press for 
selling identity information to fraudulent users of the data. 

Checkpoint (http://www.checkpoint.com) provides internet security solutions. 
Checkpoint recently purchased Zone Labs, a San Francisco bay area provider 
of security software solutions including Zone Alarm. 

They are two different companies in different business areas. 

Hope this helps, 

Mark
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Joseph Tainter wrote: 

P.S. Zone Alarm is apparently put out by CheckPoint, which is one of those 
companies that collects and collates information on all of us. Isn't 
CheckPoint the company that had records on several hundred thousand 
consumers stolen a few months ago? 

I have heard that the Pentagon (or maybe NSA) has a contract with 
CheckPoint, which will complement the data on us that NSA has been getting 
from the telephone companies. The government has been claiming that 
individuals can't be identified from the phone company data. But if the 
phone company data are married to the CheckPoint data, it is apparently a 
different matter. 

I'm not trying to start a battle here. I'm just a little shocked to see that 
Zone Alarm is owned by CheckPoint, a company I had understood to be the 
enemy. 

I will see if Zone Alarm behaves itself. If not, I will uninstall it and go 
back to the Windows firewall. 

Joe