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OLS: SELinux from academia to your desktop

OLS: SELinux from academia to your desktop

Posted Jul 31, 2008 3:08 UTC (Thu) by mattdm (subscriber, #18)
Parent article: OLS: SELinux from academia to your desktop

Okay, I know I'm taking this quote out of context, but it's a gem: "Even being part of the
project, it's hard to follow all that goes on."

Hmmm. And *that's* the basis for our security system?


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OLS: SELinux from academia to your desktop

Posted Aug 1, 2008 7:46 UTC (Fri) by erwbgy (subscriber, #4104) [Link]

That quote could refer to any number of big projects: the kernel, KDE, GNOME, x.org ...

Any they are the basis of our desktops.

OLS: SELinux from academia to your desktop

Posted Aug 3, 2008 19:18 UTC (Sun) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647) [Link]

True, but one of the principles of security is that you want it to be as simple as it can be
while still achieving your goals, because it's easier to fully understand it and to verify
correctness that way.

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