[Techtalk] Fedora Core 3 and SELinux

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 03:27:28PM +0000, David Sumbler wrote:
> Even so, I am not happy with the idea that my system depends on
> something created by an arm of the American (or any) government.  This
> is perhaps irrational, in view of the fact that SELinux is issued
> under the GNU licence - and I never check the integrity of the code of
> anything else I use (not that I'm capable of doing that anyway!)  How
> do I know that every aspect of SELinux is disabled, and that Dubya and
> his men aren't doing something nasty with my machine?

There are several valid reasons to not like SELinux. But this is, frankly, a
pretty silly one. Although I am amused by the picture of George W. Bush
staying up all night in the White House basement coding back doors.



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