__/ [ Black Dragon ] on Friday 09 June 2006 12:11 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/
>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| There is still much work needed to develop a complete security solution.
>>| Nonetheless, we feel we have presented a good starting point to bring
>>| valuable security features to Linux. We are looking forward to building
>>| upon this work with the Linux community.
>> `----
>
> NSA? Contribute to Linux?
>
> How many back doors (to help fight the war on terrorism of course) do you
> want in your OS today?
Their changes were only incorporated into Fedora, I believe, which is of
course transparent. I doubt Red Hat will permit any kernel modifications
that leave back doors and conceal these. The argument you make is often
attributed to Chinese distributions, as part of FUD campaigns (e.g. be the
victim of Chinese hackers or Ballmer's "are you going to trust some guy in
China?", which at the same time associated Linux with communism).
Before you know it, the same vendor that has secretly been eavesdropping
on all users on a daily basis will use such arguments as a deterring
warning against GNU/Linux...
As in Firefox, Apache and other popular open source projects, mind you, no
accusations can be made without quoting some lines of source code. Since
the kernel is modular, such a task should not be hard either. Many
/different/ vendors with /different/ and almost conflicting interests
(e.g. Novell, Debian, governments) are watching the code on a daily basis.
Think of it as peer review.
Best wishes,
Roy
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