CLIP OS – France’s cybersecurity agency’s open source, secured operating system

Re:CLIP OS – France’s cybersecurity agency’s open source, se... by brazzledazzle on Thursday September 20, 2018 @10:36AM (#18032716)

I wonder if there’s some context lost here with the term “sensitive”. I’ve seen data classifications use words like that. While “secret” and “ultra secret” is accurately described as “sensitive” or “confidential” the latter could be the names for distinct lower levels of data classification.

So this might check enough security boxes to allow public data and the data classification tier immediately above that on the same box. That might be as innocuous as HR data or something that could be released to the public after redacting some personal information.

Granted, my charitable speculation would require some inflexible or impractical data handling rules but I think a government bureaucracy could more than manage that.

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Re:CLIP OS – France’s cybersecurity agency’s open source, se... by marmaduke on Thursday September 20, 2018 @03:59PM (#18035054)

Working in IT for a few years in France, my guess is that this is a direct translation of a term (sensible) which refers to personally identifying information such as address or date of birth, and not some military secret. In this case, they want to provide some isolation but don’t expect to protect against ground breaking attacks like Spectre.

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