On 4/20/05, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:56:53AM +0700:
> > I think SE Linux does add more security. And so
> > far with zero overhead as I have done all kinds of things to my laptop
> > and never had to mess with it.
>
> And how does it protect your data?
>
> ("By preventing a compromise of the OS." is not an acceptable answer.)
Why not? I have a hard time imagining a way for a system to protect
data without protecting the OS. (In a sense, isn't it all just data?)
Even if you had a system that automatically encrypted data when you
saved it, someone who had compromised your OS could conceivably
replace that chunk of code with their own "encryption" scheme,
couldn't they?
--Rachel
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