DHS Open Source Hardening Project

[McGuffey, David C.]

On Mon, 19 May 2008 14:45:17 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 19 May 2008 14:13:05 -0400
> "McGuffey, David C." <DAVID.C.MCGUFFEY at saic.com> wrote:
> 
> > Question...is the Fedora development community benefiting from this
> > effort?
> 
> Before you answer that, you'd have to answer the question: "Is anyone
> at all benefiting from this other than the folks cashing the DHS
> checks?"
> 
Did we benefit from the Government checks written by ARPA (later DARPA)
for development of an internet capability?

Did the Linux community benefit from the Government checks that Secure
Computing cashed for development of SELinux?

I could go on.

But the question remains...are the open source developers who contribute
to Fedora benefiting from the Open Source Hardening Project (or any
other automated tool development initiatives)?

Dave McGuffey
Principal Information System Security Engineer // NSA-IEM, NSA-IAM
SAIC, IISBU, Columbia, MD