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“The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and many other financial institutions run their most critical services and applications on Linux. The NYSE specifically uses RedHat Enterprise Linux because of its stability and support.”
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It appears my computer is now running a bullet-proof NSA-enhanced Linux. The United States National Security Agency, which already contributed to information security (with its release of the SHA cryptographic hash functions) decided to develop a set of modifications that can be applied to Unix-like operating systems, such as Linux and BSD. And these modifications are featured in the GNU/Linux Kernel 2.6, which incidentally, has been running on my computer since the last upgrade to Ubuntu Linux 8.04. Ergo, concordedly.
Linux has been described as one of the most secure operating systems available, but the National Security Agency (NSA) has taken Linux to the next level with the introduction of Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux). SELinux takes the existing GNU/Linux operating system and extends it with kernel and user-space modifications to make it bullet-proof. If you’re running a 2.6 kernel today, you might be surprised to know that you’re using SELinux right now! This article explores the ideas behind SELinux and how it’s implemented.
