Yahoo!/TechWeb: Linux Security Rough Around The Edges, But Improving

“The National Security Agency built a version of Linux with more
security tools that its technologists believe could help make the
country’s computing infrastructure less vulnerable. They won over
the Linux developer community with the changes. But its success
depends on the adoption by U.S. companies and government agencies,
something that remains very much in doubt.

“For more than a decade, the National Security Agency has worked
on a way to use a computer’s operating-systems to control where
software applications and their users can access data within IT
environments…”

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