NSA Security Guide for Mac OS X 250
An anonymous reader writes "The National Security Agency has just released a Security Configuration Guide for Apple Mac OS X (pdf). The guide mostly contains common sense configuration information that applies to many Unix systems. It also includes specific discussion for Apple's unique features such as Keychain and FileVault. It should be useful to most Mac OS X users and will be particularly useful for US Government organisations that use Mac OS X and for commercial IT Departments that are supporting Mac OS X. A range of other NSA Security Configuration guides for other operating systems, applications, and IT kit are also available."
Jurrasic Park on OS X (Score:2, Funny)
New Government-Oriented Commercial? (Score:4, Funny)
Step 45,328:
There is no step 45,328. There is no step 45,328...*soft weeping sounds*
Lack of safety in numbers (Score:4, Funny)
(I work for NASA; almost everyone in our group has Mac OS X on our desktops and Linux in the server room. Our supervisor is the only Windows user. Yes, he's developing pointy hair.)
You Bastards! (Score:5, Funny)
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
The U.S. Governement's ultra-secret monitoring system 'echelon' was briefly unavailable after the NSA's web servers were Slashdotted.
Re:Lack of safety in numbers (Score:5, Funny)
NSA Security Guide (Score:5, Funny)
Disregard any unexplained background executables.
Always use IE when surfing.
Confine all discussing of terrorist/anti-government actions to public networks (or private ones, we don't really care)
Slashdotted already? (Score:5, Funny)
Now we can safely do, umm, whatever it is that we thought we couldn't do safely while the NSA had an active internet connection. Psst, any terrorists out there need a browser with 128-bit SSL enabled?
Re:Lack of safety in numbers (Score:2, Funny)
Talk about an exercise in futility. I'd put that book right next to Understanding Republican Mindset, Philosophical Debates of Military Intelligence and Filanthropy of Modern Man
Re:Screwed up (Score:2, Funny)
Oh bitter, bitter irony!
Re:Screwed up (Score:4, Funny)
Yacc: "It's a UNIX system! I know how to parse this!"
Re:Lack of safety in numbers (Score:5, Funny)
I'll put it alongside my copy of Speling Fer Slahsdooters.
Re:Lack of safety in numbers (Score:2, Funny)
NSA Guide to securing Windows computers (Score:5, Funny)
Step 2:Mark container "Target"
Step 3: Have courier deliver container to nearest FBI shooting range
And in other News..... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Slashdotted already? Nope. (Score:4, Funny)
They
Re:You Bastards! (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Screwed up (Score:3, Funny)
How I am supposed to afford a Mac and a Slashdot subscription?
(Just kidding...please don't start posting Dell comparisons..I know already.)
They're... still... up (Score:5, Funny)
Re:FU SLASHDOT (Score:2, Funny)
Not all of us - some of us prefer Guatemalan insanity peppers.
Here's a summary (Score:2, Funny)
(For those who missed this way back when, here's a good summary: http://cryptome.org/nsakey-ms-dc.htm [cryptome.org]
Re:You Bastards! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:NSA Guide to securing Windows computers (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Slashdotted already? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:File Vault (Score:2, Funny)
(with appol to the Mouseketeer, who in 1984 coined the name VileFision... what happened to him anyway ?)
Re:And in other News..... (Score:3, Funny)
Wait! Don't answer that!