Actually, the amusing part, to me, was "that mainstream operating systems often lack critical security features that could enforce the confidentiality and integrity of network communications." I wonder what mainstream OS's they might be talking about :-)
NSA OFFERS SUPERSECURE LINUX Posted October 04, 2001 03:10 Pacific Time THE NATIONAL SECURITY Agency, the government's security arm, along with help from Network Associates, last week announced it has made a security-enhanced version of Linux available for download. The NSA said it realizes that operating system security is necessary and that mainstream operating systems often lack critical security features that could enforce the confidentiality and integrity of network communications. Dubbed Security-Enhanced (SE) Linux, the NSA's version allows programs to have only the slimmest security permissions to run. For the full story: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/10/04/011004hnnsa.xml?1004tham ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************
