OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/26477/Android_4_2_alpha_contains_SELinux Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:05:28 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Comment by ssokolow http://www.osnews.com/thread?538942 http://www.osnews.com/thread?538942 As long as keeping control of your own device can be implemented in a manner that's as widely-implemented as the non-market APKs toggle, I'd welcome SELinux on end-user Android phones.

Maybe we can finally get general opinion of SELinux turned around by first building an ecosystem of tools, tutorials, and developers on a platform already used to permission-based whitelisting.

(Not to mention, SELinux would complement Android permissions well. From what I remember, they're less granular than SELinux in the areas SELinux is designed to deal with.)

Either way, we definitely need more SELinux adoption. Whitelist-based security is the most powerful part of firewalling and something similar for code execution in non-toy applications is long overdue.Edited 2012-10-18 03:31 UTC Thu, 18 Oct 2012 03:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ssokolow) Comments Comments disabled after 5 days http://www.osnews.com/thread?538946 http://www.osnews.com/thread?538946 I was going to comment in the Ubuntu donations article from 8 days ago but it is now archived and I can't comment ;)

I also don't like how I can't upvote stuff in a thread I decided to comment in. Just because I decided to make my own comment doesn't mean other people don't also have valid points worth an upvote. Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Priest) Comments RE: Comments disabled after 5 days http://www.osnews.com/thread?538947 http://www.osnews.com/thread?538947
I also don't like how I can't upvote stuff in a thread I decided to comment in. Just because I decided to make my own comment doesn't mean other people don't also have valid points worth an upvote.


It's to stop people voting up or down things that agree or disagree with them. We all like to think everyone is even handed, but it's not true. Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kwan_e) Comments RE: Comments disabled after 5 days http://www.osnews.com/thread?538968 http://www.osnews.com/thread?538968
I also don't like how I can't upvote stuff in a thread I decided to comment in. Just because I decided to make my own comment doesn't mean other people don't also have valid points worth an upvote.


Same, but I accept their decision. I usually skim the comments, vote for any, and then comment. Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Beta) Comments Precursor to http://www.osnews.com/thread?538974 http://www.osnews.com/thread?538974 Despite Tom's disclaimer I still thing at least LG is eventually determined to block root. I doubt that'd be a Google decision, though it certainly could be. Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Drunkula) Comments