On 01/16/2015 04:31 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
If your computer is single-user anyway, why does it need a security subsystem?
Sometimes it protects you from badly-written software. My desktop uses BOINC to run various projects for the World Community Grid. One project started throwing up constant SELinux alerts because it kept trying to walk all of /proc, something it had no business doing. After several of us reported it, the project was withdrawn until it could be debugged. Not malware, just a careless programmer, but if it had tried to write to random locations in /proc, it could have caused considerable damage to people's systems.
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