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dfeac5b60857ea44870ff37cbfb13d26
will (or by the time you read it, it may already have) translate into human words, but I would first need confirmation of, or rebuttal of my bad-dream-or-reality-that-it-were, as follows.

EDIT START Wed Mar 26 08:59:20 UTC 2014

So the title was to be:
The best GNU/Linux there was taken over by NSA

Titles often shorten expressions. For the less knowledgeable in English, this means:
(Arguably) the best GNU/Linux there was has been taken over by the NSA
"there was" because I was afraid we lost Gentoo to privacy, but it was just an astute obfuscation on the part of some unrevealed actor, because monkeys don't write Bibles, and there was something intelligently erroneous that happened in my search for the Grsecurity documentation on Gentoo...
But as I said yesterday, I'm off this topic. Docs are back, and I'm in overwork mode to restore my SOHO to full potential...
If I could, I would report what happened in detatil... but just, it's in the line of some code killing my network cards and my router... No spare time to report more... Overwork mode all in the rescue...

For the uninitiated, do this:

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$ echo "The best GNU/Linux there was taken over by NSA" > The_SUM

and

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$ md5sum The_SUM

will return to you the number
dfeac5b60857ea44870ff37cbfb13d26

But the title is:
The best GNU/Linux there was taken over by NSA? Not (yet...)

Because, I hope, and intend to report, to still be able, as any other somewhat advanced non-expert like me, to install a fine privacy-strong Gentoo, Grseuciry/Pax hardened of course... Pls. use the link below to see the discussion on Gentoo, now reached at some (intermediate) conclusion point.
The title until the time of this "EDIT" was:
dfeac5b60857ea44870ff37cbfb13d26
(it is now human-readable and will remain.)
What follows is what I wrote when the title was only that number
EDIT END

Pls., people, those among you who are using Gentoo Grsecurity hardened, have a look, and tell me I am wrong and that I am only having a bad dream!
Here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-98 ... ml#7523292
I just posted that.
And I am pasting over the most important query that I have, the query I still hope to disbelive of:

...[snip]...
But I would actually like to ask you people, pls. what happened to the Grsecurity documentation on http://www.gentoo.org ?
There used to be ample!
Now, do you see what I see when you open:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/roadmap.xml
I mean, just a few links in bottom, and e.g. the quickstart available only as PDF, while I remembere very well it was a great document that opened at least a dozen Grsecurity/Pax related documents?
Also, what happened to hardened sources?
I mean, I have been trying to reinstall Gentoo, and in the kernel, the hardened stage3 one downloaded, all is SELinux by default...
Actually it could have to do something with the change in leadership, couldn't it?
What's the story of Zach Medic leaving? I'm not familiar really... Is it public somewhere for reading?
Could anybody give a hand, I mean pitch in with a little research and contacting aroud, let's try and get Anthony Basile (IIRC he is the author of TinHat), to maybe revert this, what I regard as: ruining of Gentoo... Well, I mean, pls. people, give us those documents back before public eyes! There was a slew of documentation on Grsecurity/Pax and was being rapidly developed, on gentoo.org, yes, on gentoo.org, I think maybe one year ago, but I'm not good at precisely remembering of times...
...[snip]...

To reveal the full title, pls. someone confirm or rebutt my fears above.
Miroslav Rovis
Zagreb, Croatia
http://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr

? It's been wikified. Try [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened]. Most old links redirect.

Peter