Don't know if anyone saw this article off of /. :
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html
But I found an interesting quote at the very end of the article:
"...the Defense Department is now prohibited from purchasing any
software that has not undergone security testing by the NSA. Stenbit
said he is unaware of any open-source software that has been tested."
>From this quote, one could argue that the NSA will never be required
to, and therefore never will, test open-source software! Since the
requirement is that no software can be *purchased* without NSA
testing, this makes it a lot easier for people to say, "screw it,
let's just grab something off the net that does the job"! Thereby
saving time and money, probably doing the job better, and not
purchasing commercial software :)
Well, I found it interesting anyway !
--
Seeya,
Paul
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