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NSA Advises Upgrade To Windows 7

Posted by timothy on from the even-with-the-new-openbsd dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a document available from the NSA (warning, PDF file), that organisation advises users to upgrade to Windows 7 as part of their Best Practice for Securing a Home Network. No mention of BSD or Linux so I guess the Slashdot crowd will just have to bite the bullet and change operating systems if they want to be really secure."

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  1. So... by msauve · · Score: 5, Funny

    this means that there's an even better backdoor for the NSA in Win7?

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    1. Re:So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      The backdoor in XP only gives them a master algorithm

      It's actually a master key. The algorithm is well known, and is publicly available (like your mother).

      something else I haven't thought of

      Like Microsoft and Intel working together, to add a backdoor at the processor level? You should have thought of that. Hand in your badge, you're not a real nerd.

      they [Microsoft] actually care about your security

      You're such a dumbass.

      ...without insulting my mother, my nerd-status, or my intellect

      oops

  2. Re:Misleading summary by Missing.Matter · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thanks for clarifying. The context of the discussion was so ambiguous, I had no idea he was referring to Apple's desktop computer line. Those capital letters just threw me off completely

  3. Re:I don't wear a tinfoil hat, but.. by Omnifarious · · Score: 3, Funny

    t would be unreasonable to expect Grandma & grandpa who barely know how to turn on a computer to learn Linux...

    This is on oft repeated fallacy. And it is a fallacy. There is nothing harder for 'grandma and grandpa' about Linux vs. Windows. Especially if they don't already know Windows. My computer-literate, non-programmer friends who want technical support from me use Linux, and I hardly ever get a call.

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  4. Re:NSA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here you go: NSA securing linux guide

  5. Re:Considering who this is talking about, so what? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oops sorry. Just read TFA. :\

    Now *that* will spoil the Slashdot Experience.

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  6. Re:NSA by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3, Funny

    The NSA have an excellent guide for securing Linux systems (particularly Redhat, but much is applicable to all distros), so they're hardly Windows-centric.

    They also have developed a staple of (a) modern Linux security architecture, namely SELinux.

    Do they have one for people who live in the northwest?

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