Building Secure Computers?

maotx asks: "Growing into the job of a system administrator, I've been tasked with something I'm not quite prepared for: purchase or build a computer that meets DoD compliance for classified 'Secret' information. Several vendors, including Dell our primary supplier, offers computers that will work, but being new to the criteria I want to make sure the right computer is purchased. The computer will be used to create secure CAD drawings (Solidworks, OrCAD, etc) and must have, from what I can tell, a removable hard drive and security stickers to prevent tampering. What is you're experience in setting up a secure computer and is it better to have a vendor do it, or yourself?"

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Re:Don't ask Slashdot, ask an SSO/SSR/IAM/ISSO/IAS

[Anonymous Coward]

Stop hating on the military.

If it wasn't for those mother fucking godless terrorist heathens from the Middle (B)East the Word Trade Center would still be standing.

The military protects pussies like you from motherfuckers like them.

Of course, you probably believe September 11th was "understandable" due to the "oppression" of the Arab peoples.

Abu Ghraib? Kiss my fucking ass! WTC, Flight 93, Pentagon, and an attempt on the Capitol is my response to those pissing and moaning "Abu Ghraib".

And we didn't desicrate a Koran - that was a liberal lie.

Meanwhile Christians get beheaded in Sharia ruled countries. You like that - that's fucking diversity and tolerance - only tolerate the enemy.
Dhimmi go feel thyself subdued! Pay the jizra and submit to you Islamofascist overlords!

Back to "oppression":

I'm fucking oppressed by $3/gal gas price and fear the terrorists are going to strike again and knowing my city of birth was attacked worse than Pearl Harbor.

They getting rich, those terrorists and their supporters while we get poor. Those high gas prices hurt US and help Them. We get poor and we get bombed with our own gas money.

Please Bush, turn on the Texas wells. And keep up the good fight.

Get your info from the source.

[Neck_of_the_Woods]

https://infosec.navy.mil/

Get the stigs for you computer, and your DoD compliant. Sounds easy, it is not. But your computer will be locked down to the security needs that you will be expected to comply to.