China's new "secure" OS

"The rush to participate in the “national security operating system” arms race is pretty evident across the world, with the European Union’s secure OS Minix, the U.S Air Force new ‘secure distribution of Windows XP‘ and Russia’s interest in a similar secure OS."

Hilarious. I was a little bit interested in how a 'security' blogger could conceive of Minix being some new cutting-age security product, and found this article: http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/67026/europe-funds-...

Turns out Tanenbaum recently got a grant for more development of Minix. It's biggest security feature? The micro-kernel!

Seems like old is the new new.