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spy1
February 20th, 2002, 11:44 AM
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172419.html . Pete

jvmorris
February 20th, 2002, 12:19 PM
Interesting. *I had missed that one, not being an AOL user.

Not quite sure about the ZoneLabs response, however. *While, it's undoubtedly technically true; it doesn't seem to address the fundamental issue of whether ZA/ZAP can firewall a VPN connection once it's been authorized. *Not only would that require full-fledged Stateful Packet Inspection (as opposed to just the headers), ZoneLabs would have to be maintaining that it has a capability to decode the encrypted package. *And if ZA/ZAP can decode the encrypted package, well, then .... *;D