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Super-Secure Linux, Inch by Inch (Wired)
Wired News covers the
National Security Agency's Security-Enhanced linux (SElinux). "NSA's
Wagner says that SELinux's adoption rate "has exceeded our original
expectations. This release has also caused developers of non-Linux systems
to consider incorporating similar controls based upon our earlier
prototypes.""
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Grrrrrr... Posted Jun 13, 2002 17:27 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link] "I use SELinux primarily for its security aspects. SELinux gave us proper security to thwart hackers," Westerman said. Anyone else up for version 3 of the GPL, which includes a provision that your right to use the software automatically terminates if you ever use the word "hacker" as a synonym for "criminal" in public? The theory, of course, would be that you aren't entitled to the fruits of software that was created by people who *are* hackers...
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