SELinux removed from desktop cd spin?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jan 23 04:41:51 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
>>>
>>>>> Are you seriously trying to imply that the NSA, of all
>>>>> organizations, never backdoors anything?
>>>>
>>>> They would have to pretty stupid to try to do something like that
>>>> with free and open source software.
>>>
>>> Was that the straight line for a joke?
>>
>> No.
>
> There has to be one somewhere, but the point is that we can't possibly
> know if they would try something stupid or not - and I usually guess the
> worst.
It's not merely a question of belief. The long standing best defense
against trojan horses are open implementations which PGP or SELinux is.
If there is a risk, the risk is definitely higher for proprietary software.
Rahul
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