symbiot security - april fool's prank ?

[Chris Caydes <chris_caydes () yahoo com>]

Hello everyone,

I have just come across the website and last week's
press release of a company named Symbiot Security.
The idea of this "company" is to strike back against
network-based attackers.

I've seen the information relayed on several technews
websites, and a (rather funny) discussion on /. about
it. One suggested on /. that version 2 of the solution
would "preemptively attack any remote hosts that could
conceivably pose a threat".

I've seen the similar concept of e-retaliation last
year, on April 1st, 2003, but it was, of course, an
april fool's joke.

This looks pretty much like a prank too... Their
website is at symbiot.com, and contains nothing more
than 3 PDF files. Is anyone aware of what this really
is ?

Regards
Chris

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