On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 01:16 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> In general, it seems that SELinux is slowly getting adopted by many, >> if not all distros. And yes, I would say that distros which don't have >> SELinux in enforcing mode by default are indeed less secure than >> Fedora. So to answer your question, if you disable SELinux in Fedora, >> it will be as secure as any distro that doesn't use SELinux, which is >> *less* secure than with SELinux active. > > There seems to be this paranoia about SELinux being developed by the > NSA, so they're afraid what they may be able to do to you. Disregarding > the fact that if you were to not have SELinux, they'd still be able to > do whatever they could do, probably even more so. :-p > Now at least there is a chance of getting "NSA alerts" from sealert. ;) > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 > -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
