On Friday 31 May 2002 10:55 am, Miark wrote:
> > I find it interesting that they made no mention of the efforts of
> > the NSA to develop a very very secure linux or the adjustments
> > necessary to the standards to accommodate it. It is about as
> > spy-proof as software gets by the spies themselves... NSA has
> > issued a completed source for the kernel and security routines
> > (37 Mb download) and I think you can guess we will be looking
> > carefully at it for possible incorporation.
> >
> > Civileme
>
> That seems inconsistent with their "we want a back door to Winsux"
> behavior. Why would the NSA want us normal folk to have very secure
> machines? Doesn't that just make their sky games more difficult?
>
> Miark
Visit http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ (very interesting)
"The National Security Agency is the Nation's [USA] cryptologic
organization. It coordinates, directs, and performs highly
specialized activities to protect U.S. information systems and
produce foreign intelligence information."
"Linux was chosen as the platform for this work because its growing
success and open development environment provided an opportunity to
demonstrate that this functionality can be successful in a mainstream
operating system and, at the same time, contribute to the security of
a widely used system. Additionally, the integration of these security
research results into Linux may encourage additional operating system
security research that may lead to additional improvement in system
security."
Your tax dollars at work ... betch'a Billy G's fixin to have a baby ;)
--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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