FC4 kernel performance

Michael Tiemann tiemann at redhat.com
Wed Jun 22 12:59:26 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 08:53 -0400, Paul A Houle wrote:
[...]
>     It's not so clear that SELinux helps much against real attacks.  It 
> would take a much tougher security model than the Unix model or even the 
> SELinux model to stop the virus and zombie infections that we're seeing 
> in the Windows world.  Things like NX that prevent or complicate buffer 
> overflow attacks may be more useful.
> 
[...]
> 
>     Root access would be nice -- that would let me run a packet 
> sniffer,  install a root kit,  and generally make it a lot harder to 
> clean up the mess,  but modern crackers (who are attacking networks,  
> not individual computers) don't need it.

Paul, there are several SE Linux machines on the internet that offer you root access.
Please be the first to demonstrate that you can crack them.  That way we can make them
better...

M




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