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."

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[killjoe]

I seriously doubt the NSA is subject to the same budgeting process as the rest of the federal govt. Most of their money comes from the black budget anyway.

With the current war on terrorism the NSA can ask for and receive any amount of money they want. It looks like there will be at least one more war against either syria or iran by the time the next election rolls around and I bet there is a lot of activity at NSA in preparations for those wars.