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sliverstorm on April 8, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenSSL is written by monkeys (2009)

The NSA wrote SELinux.

chopin on April 9, 2014 [–]

Has that been audited independently? A quick Google search didn't cough up anything.

sliverstorm on April 9, 2014 | [–]

You mean, has anyone formally audited SELinux to make sure the NSA didn't load it with backdoors? No idea, but it was accepted into mainline Linux kernel ten years ago. So if you don't trust SELinux, you can't trust Linux.

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