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NSA Security Guide for Mac OS X
An anonymous reader writes "The National Security Agency has just released a Security Configuration Guide for Apple Mac OS X (pdf). The guide mostly contains common sense configuration information that applies to many Unix systems. It also includes specific discussion for Apple's unique features such as Keychain and FileVault. It should be useful to most Mac OS X users and will be particularly useful for US Government organisations that use Mac OS X and for commercial IT Departments that are supporting Mac OS X. A range of other NSA Security Configuration guides for other operating systems, applications, and IT kit are also available."
Is it too big a leap to claim that Mac OS X users are to blame? Who else would want that PDF?
The problem is that moderators don't actually bother to follow the moderator guidelines. Another problem is that there is no real forum for discussing problems with moderation, so you have to do it in your journal or under a story, where it typically is moderated as offtopic of flamebait. I'm waging my own ineffectual little war against those moderators in metamoderation by marking any negative moderation of comments about failings of editors or moderators unfair, and I urge the rest of the slashdot readership to do the same. The most important thing you can do, of course, is metamoderate.
The other problem is that you can comment on a story, or you can moderate it, but not both; this guarantees that only people who have nothing interesting to say about a story are allowed to moderate it. In other words, the people best qualified to moderate are the people who aren't moderating the story. Proof-positive that something is rotten in slashdotville. The entire moderation system needs a major overhaul and I don't see it happening any time soon :P
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Anyone got a mirror of the security guide? I'm downloading the PDF at 0.3 KB/s. :-)
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