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SELinux and confined users, make the Linux Desktop more secure (discussion.fedoraproject.org)

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was written by the NSA, that's enough for me not to trust SELinux.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's open source and lots of eyeballs have looked at it.

It's fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Really good points from here:

The "many eyes" theory is dead since the NSA backdoor in OpenSSL clearly showed how delusional that belief is. SELinux has never been audited by any trustworthy truly US-independent entity, making it nearly as untrustworthy as closed source. On top of that, there is always The Underhanded C Contest, proving that looking at the source is not enough. You need to be an expert who can detect underhanded backdoors too. – Evi1M4chine Feb 3, 2018 at 13:05

I don't think the NSA's official mission is a good reason to believe it wouldn't add backdoors. The agency considers American citizens to be adversaries, not beneficiaries of its operations. – augurar Oct 21, 2014 at 4:23

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe but there must be a reason 99% of distributions use AppArmor instead

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

AppArmor is less complicated. That's the main reason

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A backdoor written by NSA was literally found last month

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Source?