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Re: Dept. of HS: NSA 'Helped' Develop Vista and Windows Seven said by Woody79_00:Another reason to use Linux I say Didn't the NSA make it's own Linux Distro a while back, and released to the Public? lol |
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1 edit | said by DarkSithPro:said by Woody79_00:Another reason to use Linux I say Didn't the NSA make it's own Linux Distro a while back, and released to the Public? lol No, it ported its "FLASK" MAC/MLS architecture to Linux so that development of the system could continue in the public domain. This was done back in 2000 and is now called SELinux. Red Hat has been enabling a SELinux profile by default for a number of years now.
SELinux is not a distro -- it's a kernel patch. And it is a different animal from what M$ has been doing. For one, SELinux is open-source so the community can be assured there are no NSA backdoors in the code. No such verification is possible with M$ and its closed code. You just have to take their word for it. |
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| said by KodiacZiller:said by DarkSithPro:said by Woody79_00:Another reason to use Linux I say Didn't the NSA make it's own Linux Distro a while back, and released to the Public? lol No, it ported its "FLASK" MAC/MLS architecture to Linux so that development of the system could continue in the public domain. This was done back in 2000 and is now called SELinux. Red Hat has been enabling a SELinux profile by default for a number of years now. SELinux is not a distro -- it's a kernel patch. And it is a different animal from what M$ has been doing. For one, SELinux is open-source so the community can be assured there are no NSA backdoors in the code. No such verification is possible with M$ and its closed code. You just have to take their word for it. These are significant variables. . .thus the benefits to Win/Linux are difficult to gauge when weighed within this particular context.
Open source can/has been "contaminated" in the past. . .yet I tend to draw more to the open source side for the obvious reasons. |
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said by KodiacZiller:said by DarkSithPro:said by Woody79_00:Another reason to use Linux I say Didn't the NSA make it's own Linux Distro a while back, and released to the Public? lol No, it ported its "FLASK" MAC/MLS architecture to Linux so that development of the system could continue in the public domain. This was done back in 2000 and is now called SELinux. Red Hat has been enabling a SELinux profile by default for a number of years now. SELinux is not a distro -- it's a kernel patch. And it is a different animal from what M$ has been doing. For one, SELinux is open-source so the community can be assured there are no NSA backdoors in the code. No such verification is possible with M$ and its closed code. You just have to take their word for it. Pardon my French, but why the f***k would anyone ever want their Government to put code into their Operating Systems? |
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