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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Monday, August 06, 2007

BlackICE is dead; long live BlackICE

IBM kills off BlackICE firewall:
IBM is pulling the plug on BlackICE PC Protection/Server Protection, the highly-rated firewall product that came with last year’s acquisition of ISS (Internet Security Systems).

BlackICE PC Protection, formerly known as BlackICE Defender, has reached “end of life” and will be discontinued. Existing customers will get support through next September.
I'm not sure why BlackICE still ranks as "highly-rated" though; Windows XP SP2 rendered it pretty much obsolete in its current state, and after ISS acquired Network ICE they de-emphasized the consumer-level firewall to a point where there was no chance it would be updated and enhanced to be relevant in a post XP-SP2 / Vista world.

Still, it was a good run, and I'm proud to have been part of something so well known and mostly well received--Steve Gibson's rants to the contrary.

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