[KLUG Members] Security?

[Greenproc]

On Tuesday 09 January 2007 06:45, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> >From today's Cleveland Plain Dealer (buried inside, as the front page
>
> was full of some sports story that Ohioans thought important):
>
> "NSA helps Microsoft with Vista security."
>
> Is it me, or is there something disturbingly Orwellian about the
> nation's top spy agency 

no, it's not just you. I think the world in genereal is strangely Orwellian, 
and I'm not willing to limit those thoughts to computers.

> helping to design the secret workings of the 
> operating system that, according to the article, is used by 90% of the
> desktop computers in the world?

They did write SELinux which find itself in RedHat, Suse, and many others.

Now did they do it for free, or did MS have a choice, who's paying who?

What is the url for the article you mentioned? I didn't find it.

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