Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <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? speaking personally, I'd check the source code before doing anything! but given they've released the source, I doubt there's any backdoors or whatever as Raul seems to think. > 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. indeed > "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. that's about the size of it! (what's "lkml"?) It's also news because the nsa don't normally reveal much about what they're doing, let alone publically release code/projects etc. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
