NSA Makes Contribution To Apache Hadoop Project

An anonymous reader writes "The National Security Agency has submitted a new database, Accumulo, to the Apache Foundation for incubation. Accumulo is based on the original BigTable paper with some extensions such as the ability to provide cell-level security. It appears there are some hurdles that must be cleared concerning copyright before the project could be accepted."

Comments

Re:OK, now try it in English

[Goaway]

How do you "submit" a databse?

It turns out that if you read sentences all the way to the end, they become a lot more clear.

Re:NSA tries to get vendors serious about security

[lennier]

Most competent sysadmins try to do their best to secure their system, and those worth their salt, succeed to do so.

So, um. What does that make the kernel.org guys? ;)

Yeah, I thought so.