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Would You Use SELinux?

Posted by Cliff on from the NSA-wouldn't-dare-backdoor-a-penguin-,,,-would-they dept.

silent_tyr asks: "I am going to re-install my Linux box and being security conscious I am looking for a secure distribution. After a couple of Google searches I found a version called Secure Linux, which sounded ideal. So I followed this link, which turned out to be what I assume is a genuine NSA web-site. All in all, it looks like a good idea and I can play around with it as I wish, but eventually I will be using this machine as my base-system. So before I start I want to ask two questions: 1) Do you think that it is a good idea to trust the NSA not to put in back-door/spy-ware type code to enable them to snoop my personal information? 2) What other security-patched distro's can people recommend? I don't want to open up the floor for generic NSA-bashing, but I also don't want to have to work my way through every line of code before I install." There was a similar question that was asked a while ago, but there wasn't much to the discussion. For those of you who are running SELinux, what have your experiences been, so far?

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  1. Having cake and eating it too. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "1) Do you think that it is a good idea to trust the NSA not to put in back-door/spy-ware type code to enable them to snoop my personal information?"

    You've got access to the source to check it for yourself, but you cannot be bothered to do so. You have the ability to verify the program components, from publicly accessible code released by the NSA, and you honestly think they're going to put a backdoor in it? You, sir, are a fucking asshat.

    Personally, I hope that your mis-placed paranoia gets the better of you and you go for a vanilla install of Red Hat. Maybe then your system can get hacked and you can start blaming yourself for being a grade A moron who spends more time thinking about tin-foil headgear than actually checking the integrity of your own system.

    Oh, and one last thing, what it is about *you* that makes you think the NSA would giving a glob of flying monkey faeces about anything you've got on your system? Ah, that's right, you're a fucking nobody.