[LINK] Security: from a different direction

[Howard Lowndes]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 11:41, Adam Todd wrote:
> >It looks like I have to go back to hitting the books and reading up on
> >SELinux - that's the one that the US NSA wrote.  Sure, the concept is
> >great, but the implementation is a real PITA.
> 
> You'd INSTALL something on YOUR machine that was released, modified or 
> written by the NSA?

Yes, because I have faith in the Linux community.  Bear in mind that SEL
was written by NSA and released back to the Linux community under the
GPL _as_source_code_

You can be damned sure that many suspicious, paranoid and knowledgable
eyes have looked it over very closely.

> 
> HELLOOOOOO!!!!!
> 
> That's so damn cleaver it's actually stupid!
> 
> 
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