New Security-Enhanced Linux Release

James Cho writes: "Four days ago, the 2nd public release of the NSA's 'security-enhanced' version of Linux (it's not an entire distribution) came out. The NSA describes it as having 'a strong, flexible mandatory access control architecture incorporated into the major subsystems of the kernel". However it must be noted that this 'is not intended as a complete security solution for Linux' and that there is 'still much work needed to develop a complete security solution'."

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Just the standard question....

[Peridriga]

Mark this as a troll... I don't care (I have Karma to spare)

But, I'm sure it's not just me that would have to think twice or three times about installing an operating system produced by the governement agency responsible for spying on us...

Yeah I know that they more that anyone would probably be able to produce a pretty secure OS (for what's that statements worth) but, comon...

I'd have a to wait a few months on that for a good independent third party review of the entire code and daemons before I really trusted it with any of my senstive data...

Just my 2 cents...

NSA backdoors ?

[fluedke]

I wonder if they have installed some hard
to find backdoors so that they can get into
the "secure" systems ...

Remember the mysterious NSA_KEY they found in the
Windows code ?

Neither can you trust the NSA

[Otis_INF]

I mean, the USA != the world. If the NSA does something, or decides something, why should I find that a good thing? The NSA is an agency of a country where I don't live in, which has another system in place that spies on our economy (Echelon). Why on earth should I trust the NSA?

ps: no, I'm not happy about the NSA approved keys in windows either, allthough these are not usable to enter a system.