On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 20:37:07 -0700 John Gilmore <g...@toad.com> wrote: [A very interesting message, and I'm going to reply to just one tiny detail in it...] > We in the outside world *invented* all of NSA's infrastructure. > They buy it from us, and are just "users" like most computer > users. (Yes, they have programmers and they write code, but their > code seems mostly applications, not lower level OS improvements or > protocols. I'm not talking about the parts of NSA that find > security holes in other peoples' infrastructure, nor the malware > writers.)
Well, we do know they created things like the (not very usable) seLinux MAC (Multilevel Access Control) system, so clearly they do some hacking on security infrastructure. (I will not argue with the larger point though.) Perry -- Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
