Zone Labs: Anatomy of a Coverup

How angels stay clean and scandals stay silent.

Part Ten - Flashback Over

Which brings us back to the present. Tom Liston of the Hackbusters discovers by accident that there is no real protection against illicit traffic in Zone Alarm - only very lame control logic at the worst possible place in the scheme of things, the Application (Winsock) Layer.

What follows now is the anatomy of the coverup - how Gregor Freund, with Steve Gibson and John McAfee close behind breathing down his neck - tried to nullify, obfuscate and ultimately kill the Hackbusters discovery before it ever got to press. Kick back and have a good read. And yes, it's a lot like Raymond Chandler!

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