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[Dave Crocker]

On 10/15/2025 12:09 PM, John Day via Internet-history wrote:
> I believe that Multics was shown to be secure.


The story I heard, back then, was that after the multi-level security 
enhancement to Multics was done and certified, it was installed at the 
Pentagon AND at MIT.  I heard that the one at MIT proceeded to 
constantly crash.

Apparently after awhile, the one at MIT was openly declared to NOT be 
secure, and the crashing stopped...

d/

ps.  Within highly constrained environments, I can believe that good 
security can be achieved.  However we have daily reminders that we still 
do not know how to make systems secure, at scale.

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