Re: Open-Source Fight Flares at Pentagon (Washington Post)
[Posted June 12, 2002 by corbet]
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| Re: Open-Source Fight Flares at Pentagon (Washington Post) |
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| Thu, 06 Jun 2002 16:28:03 +0100 |
Eric Smith writes:
> I'm not trying to suggest that the Defense Department and NSA should not
> conduct security testing of free software, but merely that procurement
> regulations are a complete non-issue for it.
Not only should the NSA conduct security testing of free software, but
they already *have*, resulting in their own approved, security enhanced
version of Linux:
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/
Perfect for all US governmental use, one would have thought...
Tet
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