NRO jumps on open source bandwagon
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is the latest government spy agency to take the leap into the open source software community.
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Other U.S. spy agencies have also embraced open source technology in recent projects. With security being such an important issue, it might seem counterintuitive to use software whose source code is openly available, but experts say that kind of transparency is one reason open source systems could be more secure—or at least no less secure—that closed systems.
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