NSA Releases Open Source Security Tool For Linux

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.

Comments

so i am supposed to trust this thing?

[FudRucker]

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

Re:Fuck yes!

[Big Hairy Ian]

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.