Red Hat Seeks to Deliver Most Secure Linux

Jack writes "ITO is running a story on Red Hat's plan to become the most secure Linux platform. From the article: "Red Hat officially joined The National Information Assurance Partnership to bring an improved level of security and assurance to Linux. This means that the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will contain kernel and Security Enhanced Linux policy enhancements, developed by IBM, Red Hat, TCS, NSA and the community.""

Missed a link :)

[grub]

The article left out a hyperlink, corrected here :

Red Hat Enterprise Linux will join an exclusive community of trusted operating systems that have achieved this level of security [openbsd.org]

Re:OpenBSD

[chez69]

maybe because the servers we run are not in our parent's basement and need to be supported by our vendor's software?

and this is why...

[mrbobjoe]

ITO is running a story...
...and probably running it as root, too, the stupid bastards.

More secure than BSD?

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh wait, nevermind . . .

Re:Why not OpenBSD.

[Mr. Underbridge]

So that's why OpenBSD is so secure - nothing runs on it. ;)

Re:the NSA?

[ettlz]

I didn't realize that ANYTHING they did was "open".

Cavity searches.

In other news

[$RANDOMLUSER]

Microsoft says it plans to create and ship the most secure version of Windows.

I have the most secutiry...

[OctoberSky]

My Windows box has more security. It doesn't have internet. And it doesn't have an Enter key. Matter of fact, as long as I don't use it, don't let anyone else use it, and don't even turn it on, its secure as Fort Knox.

Holy crap!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

We need to act before that happens!

Let's get together and make sure that all new versions of software that RedHat sells are covered by some kind of license that prevents them from locking the software up! Hell...we could even include some kind of restriction that forces them to release any changes they make. That'll stop them!

Re:I have the most secutiry...

[pharwell]

That's what you might think. But you're not taking into account the ninja hackers who boot up your PC while you sleep and install all sorts of nasty virii onto your machine. And they bring their own Enter keys!

Most secure? Jabba's ass!

[Anonymous Coward]

They think they are so smart, encasing the distro CD in carbonite and placing 3 green pigfaced guards to keep it safe. But all it takes is ONE Organian rebel princess in a star trek Breen mask [m-nomura.com] with a raspy voice to defeat it.

But can we trust them?

[ValuJet]

I like the idea of trusted computing [gnu.org]. It gives me this warm fuzzy feeling all the way down to my toes. Sure security is an ok word, but I like how the word trust makes me feel even more.