Re: [SLUG-POL] open source projects for national security?

From: Isaiah Weiner (iweiner@redhat.com)
Date: Wed Oct 17 2001 - 15:52:09 EDT


On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 04:00:55PM -0400, Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote:
> I haven't dorked with SE Linux. But the monitoring tools are there.
> Because of the OSS nature of Linux, there is no way the NSA can create a
> "backdoor" they only know about. What they are providing is a tightened
> kernel with extensive monitoring features. That's all.

    That's not true. Go dork with SE Linux. They're providing a framework
to do it; not all the modules they distribute are OSS.

-- 
    - Isaiah



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