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Comment Re:I already funded the development, as a taxpayer (Score 1) 352

So because its been used in military applications, you've constructed this elaborate fantasy scenario rather than just researching its actual history? It was developed years ago as a commercial product primarily for the embedded systems market. Military aircraft are just an example of the applications it's been used for after it was already a mature commercial product.

Comment Re:n/t (Score 1) 352

The source code in this case is available both to the NSA testers trying to hack it as well as to customers. "Security through obscurity" isn't good enough to get that level of EAL certification. It requires going through each line of code and proving that its secure, even to someone who knows exactly how it works. It would be theoretically possible to do it with open source, but it would require an extreme degree of organization and discipline compared to normal open source projects.

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