[KLUG Members] Security?

[Eric Beversluis]

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 15:32 -0500, Greenproc wrote:
> 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.

It was in the print version of the Plain Dealer. It's a Washington Post
story, so you might find it on their page.

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