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Schwartz Comments On NSA/Sun OpenSolaris Collaboration
sean_nestor writes to mention that Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz took a bit of time recently to comment on last week's announcement that Sun Microsystems would be partnering closely with the NSA for security research surrounding OpenSolaris. Rather than the typical loads of legalese and confidentiality agreements Sun and the NSA are claiming that this move is more about the NSA joining the OpenSolaris community than anything else. I guess only time will tell.
Spoken like a true Sheep. It takes teams of people to understand the ins and outs of large sums of source code, especially for Linux and probably more so for Windows. I have hacked the kernel and made changes but I do not understand the entire thing, not one person could build an OS like Linux and deploy it without community support.
Microsoft makes its employees sign NDA's so if extra "features" get added to Windows, no one is going to know about them unless it gets leaked out. The government spooks coding some of Vista likely explains the problems people are having with it.
The last thing that is in the best interests of ANYONE is any agency of the US government making sure any of the OS's being deployed are "secure" for us to use. If they want a secure OS for their needs...fine, then make one or contract to have one made! I have no interest in using it.
The government is like a sexually transmitted disease, easy to catch and hard as hell to get rid of.
You are right...distrust of the government is a good thing and I never said the government was out to get me. I said I did not trust SELinux and have a less of a good feeling now the NSA is meddling with OpenSolaris. So how does that make me a conspiracy nut? And why are you so happy with SELinux?
If you want to me respect your opinions instead of me thinking you are some neocon jackass on some government payroll, why not instead of calling me names, perhaps share your SELinux knowledge? Why is it good? Does it benefit your organization? What kind of experience do you have with it. Doc Ruby had some very good intelligent points I counter and I enjoy that kind of debate.
You on the other hand are a fucktard, and is everyone else who pulled the "conspiracy theory" shit on me as a response. I noticed I got a score of "5". I guess the moderators thought I had something worth saying. HMMMM....
Since when does ANYONE trust the government, especially as of late. Anyone who has been here for any length of time knows the kind of comments I post and I typically do not post unless I have something constructive to bring to the forum.