[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Savard) writes: > Not surprising: the NSA's "Security-Enhanced Linux" includes, as its > unique security feature, something called mandatory security. A file can > be flagged as having restrictions on it, and then any program which > accesses this file, and writes on other files, causes the restrictions > to propagate. > > This, of course, was one of the features of Multics, which indeed dates > from about 40 years ago.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#52 the more things change, the more things stay the same they were on the 5th floor of 545 tech sq ... while we were on the 4th floor http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
