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Posted Feb 3, 2010 21:09 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Security in the 20-teens - Default security policies by eparis123
Parent article: Security in the 20-teens

Maybe this one? I don't see how it relates to AppArmor though.

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Posted Feb 4, 2010 19:12 UTC (Thu) by eparis123 (guest, #59739) [Link]

Yes, this was the one I meant. The relation I find is that an application developer (me, innocently working on a MYSQL program) got bitten heavily in the worst of times.

Maybe I did not understand the quote context very well too.

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Posted Feb 4, 2010 21:11 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

He said: "Application developers have historically been intolerant of systems that change their security policy on the fly." It was me who was missing some context; in fact it was some silly grammar mistake on my part. I thought "their" referred to "systems", not to "application developers", and didn't see how AppArmor changes its own security policy on the fly. It doesn't; it changes application developer's security policy. And yes, it is annoying when that happens.