Symantec To Acquire PGP and GuardianEdge

An anonymous reader noticed the news that Symantec has bought PGP and Guardian Edge for $370 million. They plan to standardize their encryption stuff on PGP keys.

Not bad

[Mikkeles]

It's Pretty Good Proprietory!

in 3 years from now

[Anonymous Coward]

You can get a PGP key AND free 60 day trial of Norton 2013!

Re:Open Source Alternative

[wealthychef]

Freedom is ours to take! Long live the RPG!

Rocket propelled grenades?

Re:Open Source Alternative

[jack2000]

And the sniper rifle. I've always been a stay out of harms way type of player:)

Re:suckitude

[sexconker]

Symantec will more than likely manage to screw this up just like they screw everything else up. Seriously, once upon a time their virus stuff was good. Now, you've gotta jump through hoops to remove it...

Symantec has always made great virus stuff. That shit fucks up a system to no end, and is hell to cleanly remove.

Their anti-virus stuff on the other hand, has always been shit. It fucks up a system to no end, and is hell to cleanly remove, and doesn't do it's job.

Re:Lol

[CondeZer0]

> PGP was bloatware before. Now that the most talented producer of bloatware in the world (Symantec) bought it, the PGP software will might soon win the bloatware of the year award.

If Adobe bought Symantec I suspect the massive concentration of bloat would cause the creation of a super massive black hole that would eat instantaneously eat up the whole solar system.

What is this, aquire and merger week?

[frambris]

Everybody seems to buy eachother this week. By the end of the year the Internet is run by three companies: MicroApple (software), HP (hardware) and Ciscoogle (Internet)

Re:Open Source Alternative

[Chris Mattern]

"...that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of BOOM HEADSHOT!"

Acronym change

[Limburgher]

Now, it's Pretty Good Privacy. Soon, it will be Poof Gone Permanently.

Re:Oh. My. God.

[Amouth]

I work for a giant TLA. [irs.gov] ... We're headed straight to hell, aren't we?

humm I believe you have already arrived

Re:What is this, aquire and merger week?

[bipbop]

What do you mean? MicroApple has always been at war with Oceania!

This is fantastic!

[JonJ]

I've always wanted encryption-software from people who can't write a fucking uninstaller properly.