[TriLUG] have ya'll seen this?

[matt at noway2.thruhere.net]

The RSA algorithm was open source, freely distributed, available as
libraries, etc.  It didn't stop it from being tampered with in a manner
that wasn't apparent to the many smart eyes that more than gazed at it.

While I still believe in the concept of SELinux, experience has shown it's
primary author to be not only not trustworthy, but absolutely and
completely suspect of bad intent and deed.  I have become leery of it, but
I still use it on one system.


> 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?
>
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> Maxwell Spangler
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> http://www.maxwellspangler.com/
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