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Himadrish
"J. Antas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Himadrish
"J. Antas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=== This was taken from a warm discussion about the article "U.S. Army
Warns Microsoft To Back Off" published at Slahdot:
"This problem is not government wide. (Score:5, Informative)
by rindeee (530084) on Wednesday March 10, @08:48PM (#8527840)
I just returned from days of meetings that involved folks from the NMCI
group, NSA, NIST, DoD, NAVSECGRU , CyberCorps and lots of others. I can
assure you that within this area of the Fed (cyber-warfare, crypto,
security, intel, etc.) that MS is a laughing stock. In the past this
hasn't mattered terribly, but you have to understand that now things
are very different. NSA/NIST (partnering as NIAP) now set the standard
that all other agencies from the CIA down to the Dept. of Ag MUST
follow. They establish the common criteria, define new directives and
standards, etc. etc. aud nausiem.
While MS isn't being thrown out, they are being gelded. It is a matter
of time until the attitude held by these folks permiates the Fed as a whole.
*Linux is being pushed not becuase it's free, but because it's more
readily secured.*
Much talk was bantied about on lots of OSS packages. I personally gave
an impromptu class after hours to some of the less technical folks on
installing and using Thunderbird + Enigmail + WinPT (GPG).
Perhaps Linux/OSS truly is viral. It certainly is spreading as if it
were. Keep the faith my friends."
=== And, in another passage:
"Office Product Activation=Security Risk (Score:4, Informative)
by AnalogDiehard (199128) on Wednesday March 10, @11:40PM (#8528999)
I used to work in a classified secured area.
Military and classified networks are walled fortresses with complete
isolation from the internet world. They do not tolerate breaches of this
nature that puts classified data at risk. If even a laptop enters from
the outside world, it will not leave without a complete wipe of the hard
drive, memory, and any other removable media. No exceptions.
M$ Office Product Activation phones home over the Internet. That's a
no-no in a classified secured area.
Someone at M$ is going to get das boot."
=== I wonder how does the above fit in public (state owned) healthcare
facilities?
=== And what about this sugestion?
"OpenOffice? (Score:5, Interesting)
by ErichTheWebGuy (745925) on Wednesday March 10, @08:33PM (#8527710)
Wonder what would happen if we all sent OpenOffice.org CD-ROMS
[http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/] to not only the Army, but to
other government agencies? Seems like a fantastic marketing idea to me,
and I dont think (?) that employees would be breaking ethics rules,
since it is free software."
=== If you have the extra time take a look at that amusing and
informative article at:
http://slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=check&uid=530084&type=friend
J. Antas
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