...just noticed this: http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/ in which the inclusion of SELinux features into the next Fedora Linux release are confirmed. This is great news.
What's SELinux? It is a (more) secure version of Linux developed by the largest and best-funded US spook agency, the NSA. SELinux's main claim to fame is the implementation of Mandatory Access Control in the kernel. Most operating systems provide only Discretionary Access Control, which means that someone (a superuser, such as root) can always circumvent the security and access permission system and thus see (and modify) anything anywhere on the system. Mandatory Access Control prevents this, which means it is possible to establish a database with access controls which not even the system administrator can get around - an essential feature for building an EHR data repository which I would be prepared to trust. See http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ for more details. -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
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