[109022] in Cypherpunks
Re: CDR: Pentagon under attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Tue Mar 9 02:11:27 1999
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 01:55:19 -0500
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <cypherpunks@openpgp.net>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
At 12:55 AM 3/6/99 -0500, Julian Assange wrote:
>The reason DoD has a large unclassified network is (a) that it is
>actually quite hard to do anything new on a machine with an air gap
>firewall, and (b) B2+ rated operating systems are notoriously
>expensive and out of date.
At least at the B1 and Compartmented Mode Workstation level,
there have been secure Unix systems out for nearly 10 years
that do a good job, and there used to be encrypting Ethernet cards
that provided B-level networking, and you could do email and everything.
The big problem isn't that there _aren't_ decent OSs out there,
but that they don't run Windows, which is popular in spite of not
meeting the military's standards-edicts about Posix and GOSIP.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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