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From: Bryan Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 22:42:48 -0700
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Subject: Re: OS X in a Classified Environment...
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2)Well, Nobody currently involved in a classified project is likely to respond to this question, but here is some historical (and unclassified) data: I have personally seen the current Vice President putting in on the Snake River (flyfishing) after using his Powerbook. Also, OS X has been used reasonably extensively in at least the FBI & CIA, but the lack of a couple of GIS programs on the platform were preventing its use in NIMA and the corollary division within the CIA. The presence of OS X within those agencies should not be surprising given that NeXT systems were used extensively within the CIA with black slabs and cubes everywhere, even on the secretaries desks which was pretty cool. Also, there are a number of current Xserve clusters that are going in to various mil and gov agencies and operations including some with the Navy for work in lasers, and a fairly sizable cluster going into an Army contractor for aerodynamics work. I would be interested to find out what happened to the Navy sonar cluster compute project that used G4 servers running Linux... As for a bit of trivia, going back a ways, there was a project called Cluster Knave (I think that was the project name), developed by ONI running on the old Mac OS that was deployed on submarines for tactical imagery capture, processing and transmission. That was most certainly a classified environment at the time, and one certainly cannot forget those big clunky TEMPEST shielded Macs..... Bryan >Anyone have OS X in a Classified/secure environment? Auditing? Just >curious...as I may be entering this unforgiving realm. > >Kit Bryan William Jones, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Utah School of Medicine Moran Eye Center Rm 3339A 75 N. Medical Dr. Salt Lake City, Utah 84132 http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~marclab/ iChat/AIM address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Scitech mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/scitech/eugen%40leitl.org This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net
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