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Re: Open-Source Fight Flares at Pentagon (Washington Post)

From:  tet@accucard.com
To:  letters@lwn.net
Subject:  Re: Open-Source Fight Flares at Pentagon (Washington Post)
Date:  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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