more on NSA helps with Vista security

As I said  djf

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From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed <at> reed.com>
Date: January 12, 2007 6:44:45 PM EST
To: dave <at> farber.net
Cc: ip <at> v2.listbox.com
Subject: Re: [IP] NSA helps with Vista security

Reporters should check their facts.   The chief scientist of NSA  
shared an office with me at Project MAC at MIT when we were working  
on Multics security in 1974 (and helped us formulate some of the key  
principles of multi-level security).

NSA helped IBM apply those to releases of OS/360, and SELinux (which  
is supported by RedHat in Fedora) was developed by NSA staff in  
conjunction with the open source Linux community.

So the claim of "first" OS to have NSA involved prior to release is  
wrong (and of course Vista is not a new operating system - it is full  
mostly of lines of code from XP).

So where did reporter get facts?   From a self-serving Microsoft  
press release trying to claim how secure Vista will be.   Yeah right.

David Farber wrote:
> One should point out that NSA was heavily involved with Bell Labs  
> and GE and MIT in the Multics effort back in the 60s (I was there) djf
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> From: Suzanne Johnson <sjohnson <at> pobox.com>
> Date: January 10, 2007 1:52:23 PM EST
> To: dave <at> farber.net
> Subject: NSA helps with Vista security
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> News sources are reporting on the NSA link to Microsoft's Vista  
> operating system.  Apparently they were involved in assuring system  
> security.   This is supposed to give users more confidence in the  
> security of the OS.
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>> The National Security Agency stepped in to help Microsoft develop  
>> a configuration of its next-generation operating system that would  
>> meet U.S. Department of Defense requirements, said NSA spokesman  
>> Ken White.
>> This is not the first time the secretive agency has been brought  
>> in by private industry to consult on operating system security,  
>> White said, but it is the first time the NSA has worked with a  
>> vendor prior to the release of an operating system.
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> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do? 
> command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9007719
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