NSA Advises Upgrade To Windows 7 377
An anonymous reader writes "In a document available from the NSA (warning, PDF file), that organisation advises users to upgrade to Windows 7 as part of their Best Practice for Securing a Home Network. No mention of BSD or Linux so I guess the Slashdot crowd will just have to bite the bullet and change operating systems if they want to be really secure."
NSA (Score:5, Informative)
The NSA have an excellent guide for securing Linux systems (particularly Redhat, but much is applicable to all distros), so they're hardly Windows-centric.
RTFA (Score:4, Informative)
No, the NSA recommends that you use a "modern OS" and then gives Windows Vista and Windows 7 as examples. Nothing suggests they consider these the only modern OS's in existence.
Bad summary (Score:5, Informative)
I guess no one involved in green lighting this read the PDF.
The NSA pamphlet was only for Windows and Mac users, it didn't mention migrating to LINUX or BSD because it wasn't about alternative OSes, just what current users should go to.
They have a bunch of these fact sheets, shocking the securing iPhones and iPads one doesn't talk about migrating to Android or Win 7.
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides/fact_sheets.shtml [nsa.gov]
Re:Misleading summary (Score:2, Informative)
Newsflash: Windows 7 is a great deal more secure than XP. I doubt we'll EVER see the petri dish days of the early XP service packs again.