How NSA access was built into Windows

Lyvim Xaphir knightmerc at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 18 15:13:29 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 07:15 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Alan wrote:
> >> 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?
> > 
> > Not much but if you want to be insanely paranoid then NSA (or ex-NSA)
> > people also wrote some of the network drivers and other bits and bobs.
> > 
> > Alan
> > 
> 
> I guess that electronic communication is possibly accessible from foes 
> from all sectors if one was paranoid. SELinux does not seem to be 
> intrusive in my view but rather too restrictive for some processes which 
> need legitimate permissions to write to higher privileged sectors of the 
> filesystem.
> 
> Jim


When you take libselinux out and the system is hosed, that to me is
intrusive.

LX
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