Eric Chadbourne wrote:
It seems, from my little apartment in Quincy, with no data to back this up, that it's safe to assume 1 through 3. 4 I don't know about. I _feel_ safe with the kernel. Gnome and the rest scare me.
I wrote this a while back: security means thinking about worst cases. Apply this to point number 4. Not knowing whether or not you can trust a thing should be a much greater concern than knowing what you can or can't trust.
There are kernel vulnerabilities that on paper can't be exploited but become exploitable when SELinux is enabled. The ones I know about have been fixed but remember: worst case thinking. There have to be others that I don't know about.
Has Linux kernel security been compromised by the NSA? I assume it has been, which means I know about how much I can trust it. I could be wrong, but remember: worst case thinking.
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