SELinux removed from desktop cd spin?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.

Rahul