On 9/1/06, Andrew C Burnette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, short answer is, if you can't trust your filesystem (or more
directly the OS with access to it), you've already been owned, and the
train has already left the station.

Well, there are a class of vulnerabilities which grant read access to
[any] file(s),
but in general, the game is over by that time.

If it's that secret (read NSA guidelines on security as they're actually
not half bad....),

Link:
http://www.nsa.gov/snac/

Note they only have security guides for commercial OSes.

If anyone is inclined, send their PR or public relations office a
thank-you note for
developing stuff for open-source OSes.  They took a toungue-lashing from MS
over SELinux, and are careful to state that they aren't endorsing one vendor
over another, etc.  Let them know that open-source allows the maximum benefit
from their research and development because others can study the
implementation easily.
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