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In addition to Dan Geer and Mudge, @stake employed many famous security experts including Dave Aitel , Dildog , David Litchfield , Mike Schiffman , and Chris Wysopal . In September 2000, an @stake recruiter contacted Mark Abene to recruit him for a security consultant position. The recruiter was apparently unaware of his past felony conviction since @stake had a policy of not hiring convicted hackers. Mark was informed by a company representative that @stake could not hire him, saying: "We ran a background check." This caused some debate regarding the role of convicted hackers working in the security business. @stake was primarily a ; ''WebProxy'' was a security testing tool for Web applications; ''SmartRisk Analyzer'' was an application security analysis tool. ''LC5'' is scheduled to be end-of-lifed by Symantec in 2006. Symantec announced its acquisition of @stake on September 16, 2004 Symantec press release, September 16, 2004 and completed the transaction on October 9, 2004 Symantec press release, October 9, 2004 . Several members of @Stake left to form the computer security company iSec Partners in 2004. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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