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Details about the NSA surveillance program unveiled by Edward Snowden are still coming to light, two years after the initial revelations were made. From the looks of it, at least one of the components of the NSA surveillance is being run from Red Hat Linux servers.
The fact that NSA is running the XKEYSCORE computer system on a Linux distribution should not be all that surprising, although it does make for an interesting topic. The developers hired by the NSA have built a lot of code of their own, but the NSA chose a Linux distribution to run on the hundreds of servers that are spread out all over the world.
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