How NSA access was built into Windows

Lyvim Xaphir knightmerc at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 16 03:57:37 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 13:47 +1030, Tim wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius:
> >>> One thing I can tell for sure: There is still a noticible group of Linux
> >>> users in Europe, for whom this incident and the NSA's involvement into
> >>> SELinux is an argument for "not choosing" Fedora.
> 
> Claude Jones
> >> I'm not surprised, and I have heard that myself - in fact, that comes up
> >> quite frequently in other forums and lists - I just haven't seen much
> >> discussion of it here...
> 
> Anne Wilson:
> > That reads as though Fedora is the only one employing SELinux.  I'm sure 
> > that's not so, and I've definitely seen it proposed in magazines as the way 
> > forward that will become a de facto standard.
> 
> Taking the opposite line of attack, it is possible to completely remove
> it from a Linux installation, isn't it?
> 
> 

Good question.  I'd like to find out about that myself.


LX




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