Star Security Is No Secret
Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Thu 24th Jul 2008 15:59 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Privacy, Security, Encryption NSA takes its Flask architecture to the open-source community to offer an inexpensive route to trusted systems. "What it really helps out with is something called zero-day exploits," said Daniel Walsh, a principal software engineer at Red Hat and leader of the company's SELinux team. "If you have a bug in your software that allows a machine to be taken over, SELinux [provides] another layer of controls to make sure that application only does what is was designed to do. SELinux is your last line of defense."
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I wouldn't trust anything from the NSA...
by madcrow on Thu 24th Jul 2008 21:07 UTC
madcrow
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2006-03-13

...until every single line of code had been independently verified to not provide a back door for the NSA to spy on the data. While the FBI and CIA have done their share of foul stuff, the NSA probably takes the cake in terms of sheer evilness over the last 10 years or so.

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DrillSgt Member since:
2005-12-02

"...until every single line of code had been independently verified to not provide a back door for the NSA to spy on the data. While the FBI and CIA have done their share of foul stuff, the NSA probably takes the cake in terms of sheer evilness over the last 10 years or so."

Help yourself. SELinux is under the GPL and the code is available.

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