Trusting SE Linux

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khuramrr
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Trusting SE Linux

Post by khuramrr » 2013/11/24 17:15:00

Greetings,

am new to SE Linux. but there are rumors that its a backdoor for NSA.

i do understand its open source, but backdoors can be exploited from Linux kernel.

should i trust SE Linux ?

http://security.stackexchange.com/quest ... is-selinux

any help will be appreciated.
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WhatsHisName
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Re: Trusting SE Linux

Post by WhatsHisName » 2013/11/25 00:55:10

FUD, FUD and more FUD

Tripe like this needs to be moved to Social.
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TrevorH
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Re: Trusting SE Linux

Post by TrevorH » 2013/11/25 01:10:30

Good idea. Done.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
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