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by soheil 1781 days ago
I keep forgetting NSA's job is to protect instead of maliciously eavesdropping on Americans. Given their prior probability of being a bad actor I'd take any security "guidance" they issue with a huge grain of salt.
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It's perfectly possible, laudable even, to read things with a healthy dose of salt and still expand your understanding.

I think this document gives a good general overview, often missing in the fast-paced, crowded and noisy Kubernetes landscape.

Like many large organizations, The government has many groups, often with many of them working to some extent against each other.

AES also has been blessed by the NSA, and I bet you use that extensively too - if you want to or not?

Reasonable. But then again they did come up with selinux and I haven't seen any backdoors in that.
Yet.
not sure why you are downvoted. Completely agreed.

Keeping 0-days for yourself and making security standards weaker, will just weaken your standing.

Even if this information might be useful (and without backdoors or bad advice), I just cannot trust them (so I won't click on the link).

In terms of security, I trust the hacker community much more (going by ccc or other groups advice is definitely better).