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[News] Military-grade Security for Desktops, with GNU/Linux

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Desktop Virtualization Gets Military-Grade Security

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| VM Fortress supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5, 32-bit and 64-bit, 
| on x86 hardware, along with VMware Workstation version 6 and VMware Player 
| version 2.  
| 
| Besides the military, Tresys is targeting industries such as banking, 
| utilities, health care, manufacturing and higher education. 
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147343/desktop_virtualization_gets_militarygrade_security.html
http://tinyurl.com/5tgjof


Recent:

Wolf Reveals House Computers Compromised by Outside Source

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| That kind of information, as well as everything else on my office
| computers -- e-mails, memos, correspondence and district casework - was open
| for outside eyes to see.
|
| [...]
|
| These cyber attacks permitted the source to probe our computers to evaluate
| our system's defenses, and to view and copy information.  My suspicion is
| that I was targeted by Chinese sources because of my long history of speaking
| out about China's abysmal human rights record.
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http://wolf.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=34&parentid=6&sectiontree=6,34&itemid=1174


Navy to focus only on open systems

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| "The days of proprietary technology must come to an end," [Vice Admiral Mark
| Edwards, deputy chief of naval operations for communications] said. "We will
| no longer accept systems that couple hardware, software and data."  
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http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151858-1.html
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