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NSA Releases Open Source Security Tool For Linux

Posted by samzenpus on from the here-you-go dept.

Earthquake Retrofit writes: The NSA's systems integrity management platform — SIMP — was released to the code repository GitHub over the weekend. NSA said it released the tool to avoid duplication after US government departments and other groups tried to replicate the product in order to meet compliance requirements set by US Defence and intelligence bodies. "By releasing SIMP, the agency seeks to reduce duplication of effort and promote greater collaboration within the community: the wheel would not have to be reinvented for every organisation," the NSA said in a release.

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  1. Fuck yes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm installing this thing right away!

    1. Re:Fuck yes! by Panoptes · · Score: 5, Funny

      Beware of Geeks bearing gifts.

    2. Re:Fuck yes! by GoonDuIO · · Score: 3, Funny

      Remember to open all ports, the more the merrier!

    3. Re:Fuck yes! by behrooz0az · · Score: 5, Funny

      Kexit, He uses KDE.

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  2. The microsoft Windows version is called by invictusvoyd · · Score: 2, Funny

    PIMP

  3. This makes sense. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It follows on the heels of another open-source effort from the NSA, aimed at penetration testing of large information silos. Secure Network Operator With Database Encryption Node has been shared internationally, with Russia and China actively pursuing forks and development of the tool.

  4. That's just great.. by simp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that my slashdot user name is also a NSA acronym I probably have to add a disclaimer to each post saying "This is just a text message, it is perfectly safe to parse this input". Then again some paranoid people might think that this is exactly what the NSA wants you think.

  5. Re: National Sheep Association? by chill · · Score: 5, Funny

    The National Sheep Association focuses more on the "penetration testing" side of security, if you know what I mean.

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