SELINUX - Why?

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Wed Jul 27 19:54:40 UTC 2005


At 2:24 PM -0500 7/27/05, Mike McCarty wrote:
 ...
>What I mean is, I ask "Why should I run selinux?" The answer
>then seems to be "We don't know, but if you don't bad things
>might happen to your system due to malicious programs."

Run selinux to show that you exercised due care with your customer's data,
so that it isn't scattered across thousands of other hacked machines when
your machine is hacked, because selinux made it hard for the hacker to move
around.
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