[ale] China chooses FreeBSD as basis for secure OS

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 15:58 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote: 
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:13 PM, George Allen <glallen01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Apparently China is moving their entire Dept of Defense to a hardened
> > version of FreeBSD.
> > http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=1682
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> Good Choose.

I presume you meant choice and I concur.  Give that some reports are
putting the level of Stuxnet infections at over 1 million machines in
Iran and more than 6 million machines in China, anything, other that
Windows, would be a smooth move.  Nobody really knows who is behind the
Stuxnet but I would put it at 99% probability that it's "state
sponsored" and the leading contenders are Israel, the US, and Russia.
Unfortunately, any of those players are more than capable of building
something nasty for FreeBSD or Linux, or even OpenBSD if they really set
their minds to it.

Regards,
Mike
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