[LINK] WP: The Pentagon is turned on by eWar

[Tom Worthington]

On 11/04/12 10:37, grove at zeta.org.au wrote:

> ... Why doesn't the US govt invest in their own GovOS platform that could
> be designed by the NSA to be secure out of the box ...

The US Government did invest in a secure operating system, called 
"Security-Enhanced Linux" (SELinux).

The NSA funded security enhancements were then added to version 2.6 of 
the Linux kernel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux


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