Re: The NSA's Security-Enhanced Linux

[Neal Dias <NDias () SUNGLASSHUT COM>]

It frightens me that anyone would trust ANY operating system that hasn't
been properly configured and locked down, and that would go for Solaris or
any other OS I can think of ATM. It doesn't need sugar on top, just some of
the filling removed, as with any other OS.

Neal Dias

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                    "Scott D. Yelich"
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                    12/22/00 07:18 AM
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On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann wrote:
> citing http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/background.html:
> [...]
> The result is available for download at the above URL
> as well. Has anyone here toyed with it already ?
> Cheers,
> -Ralf

Seems like this is a "demo" ...  would anyone be able to compare this
system to a system that is not attempting to be a demo -- such as
Pitbull (solaris?)?  It frightens me to think that anyone would
trust linux :-> but, alas, who knows.  Maybe is enough sugar is
poured on top, it just won't continue to smell so bad.

Scott