The register is not entirely the most reliable online tech web site, but
I have been reading it for years. I got the tip from Dick Miller.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/08/us_navy_linux_drones/
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On Sun,Jun 10 07:33:AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/08/us_navy_linux_drones/
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> By Iain Thomson in San Francisco • Get more from this author
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You know that nobody's in panic when you read this,
keyword - 'Wholesale' :
"After a malware attack on the Air Force
Somehow I don't think you are very off base.
They need a 'standard OS' that they can have some
belief that they can understand, without 'hidden source',
and unknown, un-reviewed (by outside eyes), updates,
whether they are 'security', 'update' or 'other maintenance'.
As a corporate type working
On 06/10/2012 09:59 PM, Jack Coats wrote:
> Somehow I don't think you are very off base.
>
> They need a 'standard OS' that they can have some
> belief that they can understand, without 'hidden source',
> and unknown, un-reviewed (by outside eyes), updates,
> whether they are 'security', 'update'
On 06/11/2012 07:40 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On 06/10/2012 09:59 PM, Jack Coats wrote:
Somehow I don't think you are very off base.
They need a 'standard OS' that they can have some
belief that they can understand, without 'hidden source',
and unknown, un-reviewed (by outside eyes), updates,
> come from outside. I can't believe they don't already.
Who says they haven't (with my aluminum pyramid shaped cap on)
> When I hear that they
> are using Windows for *anything* I just cringe.
As well it should.
http://diydrones.com/ -- I am guessing it would be easy to build your
own given
Mark Woodward wrote:
> ...the DOD can create its own very safe version of it.
> Their job would be to acquire some form of Linux, probably debian...
Hasn't the NSA already done this? We see the product of it in SELinux.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selinux
Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is
On 6/11/2012 3:02 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Hasn't the NSA already done this? We see the product of it in SELinux.
No. SELinux is not a distribution, not even internally at the NSA. Nor
is it a complete security solution. The NSA describes SELinux as a good
start.
That said, this isn't the fi
On 06/11/2012 03:55 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> o. SELinux is not a distribution, not even internally at the NSA.
> Nor is it a complete security solution. The NSA describes SELinux as
> a good start.
>
> That said, this isn't the first time that a DOD branch has invested
> heavily in Linux. Rec
On 06/11/2012 03:55 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> o. SELinux is not a distribution, not even internally at the NSA.
> Nor is it a complete security solution. The NSA describes SELinux as
> a good start.
>
> That said, this isn't the first time that a DOD branch has invested
> heavily in Linux. Rec
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Richard Pieri wrote:
On 6/11/2012 3:02 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Hasn't the NSA already done this? We see the product of it in SELinux.
No. SELinux is not a distribution, not even internally at the NSA. Nor is
it a complete security solution. The NSA describes SELinux as
On Jun 11, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
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> But DoD does have at least one Linux based official distribution:
True... but as Jerry pointed out it's a matter of procurement which in turn is
a matter of what the contractor has written into the contract. Back when I
worked at Prescien
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