I wish I would have been at this conference. But all I get to read is this report. Sounds like the Defense community is quickly learning that open source breeds more security, not less:

When someone brings up the current state of national intelligence, “open” is hardly the first word that comes to mind. Surprising, then, that “open sourcing” was the buzzword at this week’s Department of Defense Intelligence Information System conference, titled Leveraging Technology to Enable the Warfighter, held in Chicago.

From Dale Meyerrose, assistant director of the Department of National Intelligence, to Scott McNealy, chairman of computer networking powerhouse Sun Microsystems Inc. and Sun Federated Inc., the conference’s 2,000 attendees and speakers projected the same message: Open is the new closed.

If you read far enough in the article, you'll see some off-the-wall (and unfounded) comments on open source as a profitable way to make money, but the rest is dead on:

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