> Right now, neither of those two sites has ever heard of this rumor. But > Claude, I suggest that since you received the original post, you should > submit it to both sites and have them start some serious fact-checking. The original 1999 _NSAKEY thing was real enough in the sense it was there, what it was for nobody I think ever really proved. As to SELinux I know the SELinux code and other Linux related code has been *very* carefully reviewed by rival security agencies who also use Linux and some of these people are very paranoid, to the point they use processors not made by US vendors for example (realistically it's much easier and safer to drop in on the AMD CEO and arrange a silicon back door than to try and hide one in software), and build a trusted reviewed gcc with their own trusted compiler and systematically bootstrap their secure environment that way. Alan
