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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?"
...like me. I just sent you an email with my .mil contact info. This isn't really a conversation for the masses. If you're worried about security, you should start with OPSEC.
Also, the comments that I've read so far were not good advice as far as DIA/DODIIS security regs go. Network security and DIA/DODIIS security requirements are two very different animals. Completely ignore the advice you've gotten on here.
If you want some actual military assistance, respond to my email.
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You fucking moron.
The military *doesn't* protect us from nuts like the WTC pilots. Because we HAD a fucking kick-ass military then, and it didn't work, see? It's folks like the FBI and border guards who protect us from nuts like that.
The military didn't protect American freedom in WWII, it protected British and Australian freedom, and restored French, German, Japanese, Italian, Belgian, etc. freedom. If you knew the slightest bit about history, you'd realize that our domestic "freedom" hasn't been under realistic foreign threat since 1812.
And before you contradict me, explain to me exactly how a Soviet ICBM, for instance, reduces my constitutional freedoms; and compare to the Patriot Act.
Abu Grahib is *exactly* what gives Islamist terrorists the ability to recruit otherwise ordinary folks to their cause: photographic evidence to the effect that American "Crusaders" are responsible for all their societal problems. Of course, they're wrong, and the people responsible were an unrepresentative sample of the military, but they wore the uniform, too, fucktard. Gee, thanks military for mistreating prisoners! Why don't you go kill lots of Iraqi civilians who were "threatening" my "freedom" why don't you? I suppose you think any of the prisoners there had anything to do with 9/11? Because you should explain it. The countries you should be thinking of are Saudia Arabia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Notice the *absence* of Iraq from that list.