sean_nestor writes "Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, recently announced on his blog that Sun has "formalized a relationship with the United States National Security Agency (NSA) to incorporate their security research into an OpenSolaris community project called Flexible Mandatory Access Control (FMAC)." More from the article:
"Sun and the NSA are jointly working in the OpenSolaris community, and we're inviting broad participation — one of the great benefits of being an open source company is that Sun can innovate out in the open, within a very large community. For security technologies in particular, transparency of development is absolutely vital, even for the NSA — you can't sneak trojan horses into open source platforms. So open source allows high security customers to trust vendors *and* verify.
This collaboration is a great endorsement for the integrity of the OpenSolaris community among government users focused on technical and commercial progress."
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