And a major investor in LynuxWorks is Yacub Mirza, who's a key player in the Saudi-backed Muslim Brotherhood's commercial beachhead in the US. This is the same network that has
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x257337">important ties to the GOP's Muslim GOTV effort for Bush in 2000, along with being raided by the Operation Greenquest terror financing investigations. Yacub Mirza helped direct many of the organizations targeted in that raid. Yacub Mirza was also a financier and director of the P-tech, a company used extensively by Federal agencies to conduct "risk assessment" (presumably P-tech's software didn't include hiring Muslim Brotherhood outfits as a risk). Yacub Mirza was (is?)
also a
http://lwn.net/2000/features/LynuxWorks/">major shareholder and director of LynuxWorks, a company that has received contracts to make embedded operating systems for future military weapons systems (much more on that
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3221">here). And, it turns out, Lynuxworks is one of the companies with contracts to
http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/categories/military/799.html">develop the systems
http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/security/009565.html">used by the F-22:
Security discontent and software in airplanes
By Ellen Messmer, NetworkWorld.com, 07/25/05
The corporate security managers in the Jericho Forum <"Are firewalls expendable?"> aren't the only ones expressing discontent about perceived limitations in the long-used security architectures reflected in today's applications and equipment.
Ben Calloni, research program manager at Lockheed Martin, is another discontented soul who's trying to help develop what you might call a security dream-machine to remake Windows and Linux into something that could really fly.
The idea, Calloni recently told me, centers around a cooperative effort called "Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS)," which got off the ground more than four years ago as a way to validate software used on airplanes.
"Operating system software is deeply embedded on airplanes, such as the F-22, where we really can't have the 'blue screen of death,' " said Calloni. Nobody wants that to happen on take-off or landing!
Under MILS software-development guidelines, operating system software is partitioned in such a way that failure or corruption of any single partition cannot affect any other part of the system or network. Each partition is also evaluated and certified separately, so that no partition needs to be evaluated at a higher level than is required for its particular function.
Funded by the Air Force Research Lab., the MILS effort has been supported for use in aircraft by the National Security Agency, the Federal Aviation Authority, SRI International, University of Idaho, Boeing, Rockwell Collins, Mitre, Objective Interface Systems, Green Hills Software, LynuxWorks, Wind River, and others.
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While there's nothing to indicate this glitch was related to Lynuxworks-related software, these kinds of business connections to military contractors is something we should keep in mind.