[ale] Two talking stories

[Taylor Robison]

The NSA developed their own semi-distribution of Linux with security in 
mind.  I think Linux journal did an article on it a while back.  

http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/

Yes, here is the link to to the NSA's site about it.  I believe it used 
to consist of a kernel module which essentially created a more complex 
and hardened permission system.  There nay be more to it now...haven't 
read all of the site's info yet.

I'd love to see all government agencies use a product like this.  There 
was a Peruvian Congressman who wrote a wonderful letter (which I believe 
was mentioned somewhere in this discussion) with a brilliant argument 
for government use of open source software.  I wish more of our leaders 
held these opinions.  If you'd like to read the letter...here you go:

http://www.gnu.org.pe/resmseng.html

Taylor

phrostie wrote:

>how about a remedy that would make both sides happy.
>have the DOD start using (by law) a more secure OS (like linux) , and then MS 
>could keep their API's
>
>On Monday 20 May 2002 17:50, you wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 20 May 2002, Thompson Freeman wrote:
>>
>>>On another note, and I've misplaced the URL at the moment so I will
>>>reply to myself in a little while, Jim Allchin of Microsoft apparently
>>>has testified in court that some API's and protocols are so insecure that
>>>they can not be openly published without compromising DOD and other
>>>federal TLAs security. The Fed's claim to be deeply concerned about
>>>security, yet apparently they may be wide open to a persistant terrorist.
>>>I suspect that I should be concerned...
>>>
>>http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp
>>
>>Absolutely unbelievable. I don't have the words to describe what I'm
>>thinking...
>>
>



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