Would You Use SELinux?

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?

Comments

Re:What?

[tka]

GPL'd source guarantees that nothing lives in your kernel that you cannot examine as much as you like for backdoors. Yet this examination has to be done somebody else, by larger group of people who have great amount of knowledge and experience on these matters. It is simply not "possible" to this guy/girl to examine the kernel. Besides it is not not a easy task look for backdoors etc. Does anybody know that this kind of examination has been taken place by independent group?

It's a modification of a standard distro, so...

[metamatic]

"I also don't want to have to work my way through every line of code before I install..."

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