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		Zoomla on Dec 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta Does government certs mean backdoors?

jlas on Dec 11, 2013 | [–]

No. The government has to certify the system before it can be used on government networks.

This is so companies can sell compliant RHEL7-based solutions to military and other government organizations.

rdtsc on Dec 11, 2013 | [–]

Those are orthogonal concepts ;-)

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