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How The NSA Secures Computers
An Anonymous Reader wrote to mention an NSA site covering secure configuration guidelines for a number of operating systems. From the site: "NSA initiatives in enhancing software security cover both proprietary and open source software, and we have successfully used both proprietary and open source models in our research activities. NSA's work to enhance the security of software is motivated by one simple consideration: use our resources as efficiently as possible to give NSA's customers the best possible security options in the most widely employed products."
The NSA has customers? How long do you think it'll be before Microsoft tries to 'aquire' them as the latest 'innovation' in computer security? :D
the guide to securing Windows XP is actually a link to http://distrowatch.com/ so you can choose one of the many different options they have laid out for you.
My UID is a palindrome, that must be good for some type of prize.
Holy shit, have we just slashdotted the NSA? I can't reach the article.
Careful now you might piss of some Vietnamese twins in South Africa if you mention that again.
So, since the NSA doesn't provide instructions on how to secure a Linux computer, they're either saying Linux is so good it doesn't need to be secured (yay slashdot mentality) or its red commie software that no freedom-loving american would dare use
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