How best get rid of SELinux?

Alan M. Evans fedoralist at alanevans.org
Fri Sep 21 15:15:07 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 01:05 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:

> EVERY LINE OF CODE is an opportunity for a defect. The only way
> to make systems robust, is to make them simple.

The problem with this argument is not that it's false. It's actually
true if your problem is stated with such a limited domain. But it seems
to me somewhat short sighted. Are systems with a firewall actually less
secure because those without have, in fact, fewer lines of code?





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