You gotta love Government Official-speak. So the UK Gov has issued a bunch of guides (I guess to employees with sensitive
data) on how to secure their desktop machines. They've even issued one for Ubuntu catchily titled :
End User Devices Security Guidance: Ubuntu 12.04
I'm pointing it ...
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