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The NSA Gives Their Two Cents On Securing XP/2K/NT
caino59 writes "Thier site is already slow, and must be taking a hit, but the NSA has released several guides on Securing Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows NT. Now go out and download the guides, and /. the NSA!"
After all, the majority of slashdot readers use windows NT/2000/Xp.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Nope. After all they're in charge of National Security.
If they need access to a private machine I'm sure it's trivial for them in most cases.
I'd think the difficulty for them is probably figuring out _who_ to give extra special interest to. Given the many enemies of the USA, they've probably got a big list of whos.
It's not as simple as it seems. The NSA is essentially two organizations -- one whose job it is to break communications, another whose job it is to make sure communications don't get broken. This even means helping industry with codes - they had a major say in portions of DES, in which they designed portions such as the S-Boxes so that they were less vulnerable to still classified (at the time) types of cryptoanalysis. This isn't to say that one should blindly trust the NSA in matters of security, only to say that things are more complex than many would believe upon casual inspection.
Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses