U.S. Gov't Sponsors InfoSec Defense Training

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 31, 2002 @10:28PM from the good-bennies dept.

Anomolous Cow Herd writes: "CNN is reporting that the U.S. government is awarding scholarships to a select few computer science students to study information security, with the caveat that they must agree to work for a government agency for at least two years afterwards. This is in response to the general state of paranoia that has ensued since 9/11, with 'cybersecurity' as a high priority. Considering that a vast majority of government agencies run on Windows NT and derivatives, it's no wonder that they consider the eventual graduating class of 180 'doesn't have a chance.'"

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OpenBSD by bleckywelcky · 2002-04-01 00:39 · Score: 1, Offtopic

It's:

Four years without a remote hole in the default install!

Which is rather awesome for anyone just trying to mess around with BSD or get into the UNIX-variant world. You can just shove in a boot disk, set up your system, install with the default config, and you have an up and secure system. Just add some ip forwarding and whatnot and you already have a personal gateway/firewall for your household.