[ale] China chooses FreeBSD as basis for secure OS

[Richard Bronosky]

Yes any of those states would have the ability to exploit a solid FOSS
OS. However, I bet it's harder to exploit them than it is to get a
mole into MSFT. Especially for the US government.

On 10/12/10, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 15:58 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:13 PM, George Allen <glallen01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Apparently China is moving their entire Dept of Defense to a hardened
>> > version of FreeBSD.
>> > http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=1682
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>> Good Choose.
>
> I presume you meant choice and I concur.  Give that some reports are
> putting the level of Stuxnet infections at over 1 million machines in
> Iran and more than 6 million machines in China, anything, other that
> Windows, would be a smooth move.  Nobody really knows who is behind the
> Stuxnet but I would put it at 99% probability that it's "state
> sponsored" and the leading contenders are Israel, the US, and Russia.
> Unfortunately, any of those players are more than capable of building
> something nasty for FreeBSD or Linux, or even OpenBSD if they really set
> their minds to it.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
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