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Understanding Mac OS X Kernel

Posted by timothy on from the deep-in-the-heart-of-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Kernelthread.com has published a flash presentation overview of the Mac OS X kernel. Its title is 'A Tour of the Mac OS X Kernel' and it also covers Tiger features. Maybe interesting to note is that the slides are from a talk given to the NSA. Well, there is a nice security architecture diagram towards the end of the presentation."

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  1. NSA deciding how to break into Mac computers? by Futurepower(R) · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    From the Slashdot article: "... the slides are from a talk given to the NSA."

    The probably reason that NSA staffers are interested in this subject is to decide how to break into Mac computers. The NSA and other U.S. government organizations are the most well-funded spy organizations in the world, by far.

    The NSA is an interesting U.S. government organization. Most U.S. government organizations are expected to follow the law, but the NSA and many other secret agencies are allowed to break U.S. laws and the laws of other countries. This attracts a lot of people who like to engage in that kind of behavior.

    U.S. citizens are expected to pay for everything, but they are not allowed to know how much they pay, or even know the names of some of the law-breaking agencies, or what the agencies are doing.

    "Blowback" is a U.S. government spy agency term for the negative results of the U.S. governments secret hostile attacks on other countries. The bombing of the World Trade Center was blowback from the U.S. government's largely secret support for killing Arabs. (The U.S. government had various justifications for the killing.) It is not a surprise that Arabs don't like to be killed. It is not a surprise that some Arabs would decide to return hostility with more hostility.

    Secrecy is incompatible with democratic government.