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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. so i am supposed to trust this thing? by FudRucker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    security software from the biggest spy organization in the world that have violated the law in order to spy on EVERY us citizen,

    no thanks, the NSA is going to have to continue spying on me the old fashioned way

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  2. Re:Fuck yes! by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually my first thought was how will hackers use this tool ti identify and exploit security issues in vulnerable sites. As ever any tool used to increase security can be used to exploit it.

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  3. Re:The NSA has done several things to help securit by LWATCDR · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Only if you are dumb.
    This is Open Source from the NSA every security deeb on the planet will tear into it hopping to get a paper out of some exploit and big consulting contracts.
    Odds are really good it is rock solid.

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  4. Re:The NSA has done several things to help securit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, but in the case of DES, it was actually proven many, many years later that they picked constants that really were just for improved strength. IBM knew about that too, as it turns out, but the NSA muzzled them and got them to shut up on *why* those were the best constants.

    Surprising, but it really does seem like DES was them just trying to help improve US security.

  5. Re:The NSA has done several things to help securit by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The NSA has a couple of departments. One wants to secure computers. The other to break in. Thankfully, because they are different fiefdoms, we can get actual information on how to secure things from that one group.

    And yeah, the NSA can access pretty much any information it wants on me already. Why would it even want to waste it's time looking at my computer. They know more about me than my computer does.

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