<quote who="Raul">
> Exactly! I'd prefer to trust a bunch of Canadian hackers with OpenBSD over
> someone who is a known back door artist. ;)
>
> "NSA develops secure version of linux" I guess is our funny headline for the
> week! :)
It's not really all that funny - but, it happens to be a bloody good sign.
What happens when the NSA offers a patch for Linux or various apps? Do we
thwack them in and hope for the best, or read them and report the fixes?
The NSA is just like any other group offering enhancements for Free Software
- if they want to distribute their work, they must make their changes
available, and their participation pays for itself over and over as more
enhancements are made.
"H. Random Hacker develops secure version of Linux" is kinda boring, but
it's exactly the same thing. The NSA just happen to have a whole stack of
security-overloaded geeks who've taken enough How Not To Be Seen courses to
hide a fake moon landing recording studio, an entire military base after an
Alien crash landing, and three small countries.
They only get press because they're weirder than everybody else on lkml.
- Jeff
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