On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:44 AM, mike havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
are you saying that the russians hacked into their internet systems?


On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 11:57 -0700, Tuna wrote:
> Lookie what I found!
>
> http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/rhel5-guide-i731.pdf
>
> A 170 page PDF about securely configuring Red Hat, written by and for
> the government. If you look around on NSA.gov, you'll find similar
> things for OS X, Solaris, and even Windows.
>
> Cool stuff, I think. Who ever thought of looking to the government for
> security tips? :P
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actually the government has a vested interest in helping America's
businesses secure their Internet systems. One of the primary weapons in
modern day warfare is destroying the ability to communicate and conduct
commerce. If you have the slightest doubts about this, do a little
research about what happened to the country of Georgia when they battled
with the Russians 2 years ago. Before that, there was the issue with
Latvia (IIRC) when they removed statues of Russians from their public
plazas.

Craig

Well the NSA and Microsoft have had long agreements.  I believe the NSA has their own proprietary protocol(s).

But, I agree that this is a VERY general document; it is clearly not examples of well configured complex systems. 

Do they warn you not to install X on a production system and surf via firefox,  get your junkmail?

I doubt it!  Those types of Layer 8 obnosis come only from experience.

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