HP Gives Russians Code

I am appalled at a story today in Reuters.  According to the news service, HP has given the code to ArcSight to the Russians as part of a program like the one the Chinese have, to show that code is “secure” against the kinds of threats they see as important to securing a product.  So, that means HP was looking at selling ArcSight to the Russians or they wouldn’t have been going through the review process, and the violated existing export laws prohibiting the transfers of this kind of software without a license.  Somebody should go to jail for this, and maybe more than just people at HP.

If they applied for a license and got one, that is another problem to look at.  Nobody in their right mind would give anyone the software, especially somebody who has not exactly been our friend.  HP should have known better in the first place, and the government should have never allowed the licensing of the software.  This is beyond stupid.  These are undoubtedly marketing people with their collective heads somewhere they can’t be seen.  In the name of making a dollar they have compromised the software the Defense uses for its computers.  One has to wonder where they got the idea they could do that.