Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mimsy!umd5!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: UNIX classified operation - (nf) Message-ID: <6169@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 21:54:43 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6169 Posted: Fri Jul 24 21:54:43 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 16:53:48 EDT References: <175@uw-apl.UUCP> <8300007@iaoobelix.UUCP> <735@jenny.cl.cam.ac.uk> <468@unisoft.UUCP> <1335@osiris.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 13 In article <1335@osiris.UUCP> mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus Ranum) writes: >This type of boneheadedness will all be done on secure UNIX systems, anyhow... Not necessarily. Another, technically much superior approach to classified computing is to operate the system inside a physically controlled area (vault). That's actually the approach that BRL seems to prefer, rather than crippling our systems so that perfectly reasonable application needs can no longer be effectively met (which is what the Orange Book would have you do). Government regulations in general appear to be written by people who have insufficient input from the working level that the regulations would directly impact. So long as the politicians continue to think that they have some special ability to fix problems by administrative fiat, this situation wessiessie FL