How NSA access was built into Windows

Lyvim Xaphir knightmerc at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 16 06:12:01 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 08:03 -0500, Andrew Parker wrote:
> On 1/15/07, David C. chipman <dchipman at ican.net> wrote:
> > I have to ask you, though, because we have the code for SELinux, how
> > could they provide a back door? Later,
> 
> I've spent a good 10-15 hours a week developing selinux for the last
> year or so, and have quite a  detailed understanding of the code
> there.  I can assure you now that I have never seen anything that
> looks like a back door in any of the code.
> 
> I also work for the NSA.
> 
> That is how it could be hidden.  A few developers saying this, but
> without the previous paragraph.
> 

Andrew; since you have experience with this, I'll ask the question.  How
much, if any, selinux code gets loaded when selinux=0 is added to the
boot line?  What modules are read and do any remain active?


LX




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