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Secure OS Gets Highest NSA Rating, Goes Commercial
ancientribe writes "A hardened operating system used in the B1B bomber and other military aircraft has now been released commercially, after receiving the highest security rating by a National Security Agency-run certification program. Green Hills Software's Integrity-178B operating system was certified as EAL6+, which means that it can defend against well-funded and sophisticated attackers." The company is not saying how much the OS would cost a potential customer: "The system and its associated integration and consulting services are custom solutions." Both Windows and Linux are EAL 4+ certified, which means they can defend against "inadvertent and casual" security breach attempts.
If the three letters N-S-A don't mean enough to you to lend this certification a crapload of credibility, you're obviously not terrified enough.
Evidently, the key to understanding recursion is to begin by understanding recursion. The rest is easy.
What "best and brightest hackers" are you talking about? All the intelligent human beings *I* ever ran across would rather cut their arms off instead of working for the American government, let alone an American intelligence service.
In other words, EAL ratings are completely divorced of any relationship with actual, real-world, security.
Out of interest, I wonder what EAL they'd give to what most of us here consider the most secure OS currently available, OpenBSD.
I hate printers.
Erratum: for "the world", read "the USA".
Come on, don't nitpick. Everyone knows those are synonyms in American English.