SELinux removed from desktop cd spin?

[Les Mikesell]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>>>>>> Are you seriously trying to imply that the NSA, of all 
>>>>>> organizations, never backdoors anything?
>>>>>
>>>>> They would have to pretty stupid to try to do something like that 
>>>>> with free and open source software.
>>>>
>>>> Was that the straight line for a joke?
>>>
>>> No.
>>
>> There has to be one somewhere, but the point is that we can't possibly 
>> know if they would try something stupid or not - and I usually guess 
>> the worst.
> 
> It's not merely a question of belief. The long standing best defense 
> against trojan horses are open implementations which PGP or SELinux is. 
> If there is a risk, the risk is definitely higher for proprietary software.


But the NSA would be at least as capable of introducing a hack that you 
could examine but not see as Ken Thompson:
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Reflections%20On%20Trusting%20Trust
I'd expect them to even be able to conspire with the CPU vendors to have 
certain undocumented opcode sequences do magical things.

I don't see any reason to trust proprietary software either.

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