Welcome to the tinfoil hat club!!
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Keith Smith
--- On Fri, 6/7/13, josh <[email protected]> wrote:
From: josh <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: OT: NSA story keeps getting bigger...
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, June 7, 2013, 11:03 AM
Not having been a tinfoil hat guy, I have been changing the way I do some
things and deleting various accounts that I don't use or don't trust. Mostly in
a reaction to this plus some other things that I've been learning. I'm also
wondering if there's a way to become a security/privacy/rights advocate &
consultant and still pay bills.
On June 7, 2013 at 10:26:30 AM, Nathan England ([email protected]) wrote:
I am a conspiracy theorist. I have believed the Selinux was an NSA back door
since it came out. Is there documented proof? No. Has it been examined by lots
of people? I don't know. Can you prove it has been examined by lots other than
a dozen developers working for a company that has already signed documents
stating they will cooperate with the government?
Would RedHat come out in the open and announce that selinux is a backdoor for
the NSA? No, that would eliminate their OS. Everyone would dump them, Fedora
also, in droves!
Honestly, I said it originally with tongue firmly in cheek, but I do have my
suspicions. The NSA has some of the best computer security guys outside of
Google, who is to say they could not write some excellent code that takes
others a long time to figure out what it is really doing? lol
On Friday, June 07, 2013 09:36:50 AM Ted Gould wrote:
Okay, I may be feeding the trolls, but I have to ask:
Is there a link to this SELinux is a backdoor thread? I mean it is open source
and the source code has been read by many people inside the US and out. Is it
just "the NSA wrote it so it must" type of thing?
In my experience the only backdoor in SELinux is that it's so complex almost
everyone screws it up ;-)
Ted
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