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2007-12-26 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-12-26 13:54|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 Back in 'the day,' While attached to the A-12 program, we had Macs and PCs running side by side; a real pain in the (tush) if wanted to move data btwn two platforms. hope tha has been fixed.

Posted by USN,Ret. 2007-12-26 15:29|| 2007-12-26 15:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Norton is the sleeping guard dog of the Anti virus world. It'll slow your machine considerably yet still let spyware and viruses through. You might as well use one of the Free programs like AVG, update it manually, stay away from anything free and hope for the best.
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Posted by X7C00 2007-12-26 16:52|| 2007-12-26 16:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Intel-based Macs can run Windows now, thus providing a insecure back door for Macs which have installed Windows software.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-12-26 17:14|| 2007-12-26 17:14|| Front Page Top

#4 I use Kaspersky as my commercial av/fw/malware. And I have a few free ones I use in depth as well.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-12-26 17:55|| 2007-12-26 17:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Eventually the Pentagon is going to have to bite the bullet and contract a military specs computer. That implies a complex philosophy of computer use and compatibility.

Every aspect of a secure computer will be modular, with a very low electronic signature. The OS, software and data will be kept on a thumb drive, which will be electronically cleaned when traveling from hub area to hub area, retaining on encrypted ID and password.

That is, a soldier traveling between data hubs will have his thumb drive cleaned. He will carry it and his laptop with him to the next hub, where his thumb drive will be plugged in, identify him, and he can enter his password. It is then uploaded with the OS, software and data at the new hub.

Then he plugs the thumb drive into any mil spec computer, most likely his own, and everything he had at the first hub is restored. The laptop is designed not to function if its seal is broken. And if a hub is not available, he does not clean his thumb drive in the first place.

This eliminates the #1 security problem of laptops: loss. If the laptop is lost, it has no data on it. If it is stolen and opened, it no longer functions. If the thumb drive is lost or stolen it has no data on it, except encrypted ID specific to one individual, and his password check.

This would be the system for secure computing. Then there would be a second system for proprietary, but otherwise unclassified information, that would be ordinary PCs on a closed network, like the Pentagon uses today.

Then a third, public network, that would be a DoD intranet. A typical lower security net, even accessible from the Internet.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-12-26 18:09|| 2007-12-26 18:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Better to accept that real *secrets* don't belong on a computer any more than they belong on a piece of paper that might fall to the wrong hand...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-12-26 20:22|| 2007-12-26 20:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Actions like this configuration of a kernel for the NSA's SElinux will become more common.

Posted by 3dc 2007-12-26 22:12|| 2007-12-26 22:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Hate Windows. Like Macs. But don't think this will amount to anything. Whatever technical advantage Macs might have is easily obscured by the idiocy of the operators. That's your point of failure.

Posted by Iblis 2007-12-26 22:24|| 2007-12-26 22:24|| Front Page Top

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