In comp.os.linux.advocacy, plenty900@yahoo.com
<plenty900@yahoo.com>
wrote
on Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:19:16 -0800 (PST)
<0d20143f-558b-4e80-8191-2804cd0b5b81@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com>:
>
> I've learned that there are bits of NSA's SELinux in various
> places in kernel 2.6. How can I be sure that Big Brother isn't
> using back doors or bugs to break into my computer?
> Especially with all the illegal spying done these days...
> How much safer would it be to just switch back to 2.4 or 2.5?
>

Naaah...just switch to Microsoft Windows Vista. That way you can be
absolutely *sure* that there are bugs allowing malware to break into
your computer....

;-)

As it is...SELinux is not a backdoor intrusion device; it's
a series of implementations of ACLs, as I understand it,
and other such enhancements.

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