On the other hand, I bet ol' Billy is grinnin' like a chesire cat over this filth:
"..the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution outlines how open source might facilitate efforts to disrupt or sabotage electronic commerce, air traffic control or even sensitive surveillance systems. "Unlike proprietary software, open source software does not make the underlying code of a software confidential. "'Computer systems are the backbone to U.S. national security', says Fossedal, chairman... 'Before the Pentagon and other federal agencies make uninformed decision to alter the very foundation of computer security, they should study the potential consequences carefully.'" http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.053002/221502375 Tell me Billy isn't greasing their FUD skid. 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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