On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:41:31AM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote:
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html
>
>Anyone know of any commerical Microsoft products that have been tested by the
>NSA and passed?

I for one would rather the defense department write thier own software. I
have yet to see a piece of software (opensource or otherwise) that I'd
trust with controlling a rocket, warhead, guidance system....

I think the NSA has made the right choice. They've got some real security
minded folks there who are more than capable of auditing code. My guess is
they'd lean toward opensource stuff cause there's no hassles to get access
to the code (not that the NSA would have any problem with it, but it's
additional steps)



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