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Secure your Mac: Do as the Federales do
More security notes from the underground TUAW vault. Up until Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, you could see your tax dollars at work very readily, as the National Security Agency published OS-specific guidelines for hardening your OS X installation -- mostly commonsense items like "use strong passwords" and "turn off unneeded services," but it was nice to have a document with the imprimatur of the US Government's most professional paranoids that you could show to your spouse/boss/Russian friends and say "See, it's secured!"
As of Tiger, however, the NSA has handed over the security stick to Apple and endorsed the vendor guides to securing both OS X and OS X Server as "[tracking] closely with the security level historically represented in the NSA guidelines." You can download the Server version of the PDF from the NSA's website, but oddly the client version seems to hang on download (spies! saboteurs!), so you can grab that one directly from the mothership. Between the two guides you have over 500 pages of security reading, so save the whole weekend.
Oops, thanks Derek!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sietepestes said 3:30PM on 9-20-2007
Actually that document you are referring to, is based on panther, not tiger. There is a small pdf based on tiger and its only 7 pages long.
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derekhardwick said 3:35PM on 9-20-2007
awwww... no credit? ;)
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Slevin said 3:38PM on 9-20-2007
Hey where can we get that wallpaper?
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Sietepestes said 10:20AM on 9-21-2007
you can get it at www.nsa.gov
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