Then you would shit bricks when you read this http://www.forbes.com/sites/calebmelby/2013/03/27/nir-zuks-palo-alto-networks-is-blowing-up-internet-security/ " There was a time when Zuk and Shwed were brothers-in-arms. Three years Zuk’s elder, Shwed began his required service in the Israeli Defense Forces in 1986. He entered into Unit 8200, an elite electronic intelligence arm, at age 18. It was there that he built the world’s first packet-filtering device that screened traffic based on Internet Protocol address. Zuk was a natural for Unit 8200. He learned to read and write before entering school. He got his first pair of glasses in the third grade after years of fooling school nurses by memorizing the vision chart. In the sixth grade he became chess champion of Israel’s eighth-grade-and-under division. Zuk begged his parents to get him a Dragon 64 computer for his bar mitzvah. He went on to create some of the world’s first computer viruses. “Just for fun,” he insists. He joined Shwed’s unit in 1990. They worked together closely for a year, until Shwed’s time was up. Shwed went off and founded Check Point in 1993 with fellow military men Shlomo Kramer and Marius Nacht. Zuk served in the IDF through 1994, spending an extra year in officer training, and started overseeing a small group of engineers. He realized he didn’t like managing people. He was recruited by Check Point and helped build its flagship product, Firewall-1. " And in case you dont know what Unit 8200 is: Unit 8200 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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