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NSA Guides for Securing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

These are some decent guides for securing your Red Hat Linux 5 system provided by the US Government’s NSA. Enjoy

Open Source for Sovereignty

It's not just European government that's opting for open source. Today the NSA (the super-secret spy agency in the US) have announced they are joining in with OpenSolaris. Barton has an interview that explores this more. I think we'll see more and more government engagement as the adoption-led market takes hold.

Using Free software from open source communities makes perfect sense for governments, and not just for the obvious reasons of up-front savings on license fees.

House passes Restore Act with no telecom immunity provision

http://arstechnica.com –

The House of Representatives has passed the Restore Act, which facilitates broad surveillance of foreign terror groups while restoring the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court's oversight of communications between foreign and domestic surveillance targets.