On Fri, 31 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: > 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 ;)
Ya know Tom - <ginning broadly and chest puffed out with Pride>, it's things like this that give me such a sense of pride. I LOVE being a Linuxer. I'm downing loading SELinux as I write this and I can't wait to get home from work to being putting it all together! I've never build a linux system from scratch before, but I think its time that I did. -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR ------------------ "If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997
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