[TriLUG] have ya'll seen this?

[Maxwell Spangler]

The openness for review of SELinux is a really important.

I met one of the SELinux developers when he gave a talk at the Boulder,
Colorado LUG.  He's just like one of us: a coder, passionate about
features and quality, and proud of his work.

If SELinux was a binary module I'm sure there would be a huge call after
the Snowden revelations to remove it anywhere, immediately.  But it's
open source code with plenty of eyes on it and its available for the
most paranoid security oriented people to investigate.  Go for it.  

With Fedora 20, I'm running SELinux enabled.  It's good stuff and a
shame that so many smart people don't make the effort to learn it.
Myself include in the past.

Looking forward to the future date when Snowden describes how he
actually got his stuff.

"Well most people at the NSA disable SELinux so it was pretty easy."
Perhaps?

On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 11:35 -0500, David Both wrote: 

> Has anyone looked at the code? It *IS* OpenSource.
> 
> 
> On 01/01/2014 11:33 AM, John Broome wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Dewey Hylton <plug at hyltown.com> wrote:
> >
> >> who is credited for authoring SElinux?
> >
> > Tin foil hat: ENGAGE
> >
> > What if the NSA made selinux so onerous to deal with on purpose so that
> > everyone turns it off after a fresh install...
> >



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Maxwell Spangler
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