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Benjamin Scott bscott at ntisys.com
Sat Dec 4 23:03:00 EST 2004


On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, at 9:45pm, jared at watkins.net wrote:
> I've heard stories about some rather interesting installs for people
> who... lets just say they paint houses...

  ... and fly around in black helicopters powered by devices obtained from
crashed alien spacecraft, I'm sure.  ;-)

  I've seen a few of the systems the NSA and the US Air Force use to protect
the confidentiality of data.  Some electronic devices have a "zeroize"
capability built-in, where you press a button and everything gets erased.  
As for the rest, they find explosive and incendiary devices (not exactly in
short supply for the military) do a fine job.  They even have this one
explosive device designed to hang in a file drawer like a Pendaflex folder.  
For use in the event of "imminent compromise by hostile forces", IIRC.

  Interestingly, the NSA is also pushing this system called EKMS (Electronic
Key Management System).  The part of EKMS which is deployed to the field is
the LMD (Local Management Device).  Currently, the LMD is a standard i386
architecture PC running nothing other then SCO Unix.  I sometimes wonder
what the NSA is going to do if SCO manages to destroy themselves with
lawsuit fever.  Speculation about SELinux occurs.

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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