[Discuss] US Navy buys Linux to guide drone fleet

[tmetro+blu at gmail.com (Tom Metro)]

Mark Woodward wrote:
> ...the DOD can create its own very safe version of it.
> Their job would be to acquire some form of Linux, probably debian...

Hasn't the NSA already done this? We see the product of it in SELinux.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selinux

  Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a Linux feature that provides the
  mechanism for supporting access control security policies, including
  United States Department of Defense-style mandatory access controls...

  The key concepts underlying SELinux can be traced to several earlier
  projects by the United States National Security Agency.

  It is not a Linux distribution, but rather a set of Kernel
  modifications...

But I believe it started as an in-house NSA distribution, which I bet
they still maintain.

 -Tom

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