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SELinux vs. OpenBSD's Default Security
Sep 26, 2007, 18 :30 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (4583 reads)

"A thread on the OpenBSD-misc mailing list compared the security of SELinux in the 2.6 Linux kernel to what's available in OpenBSD. The general opinion was that SELinux and its policy language are too complex, leading Damien Miller to note, 'every medium to large Linux deployment that I am aware off has switched SELinux off. Once you stray from the default configurations that the system distributors ship with, the default policies no longer work and things start to break.' Ted Unangst summarized, 'the problem with security by policy is that the policy is always wrong...'"

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For starters, the comment originated wit ...   Bad assumptions   
John Pugh
Sep 26, 2007, 20:08:49
 
One comment was to the effect that every ...   Worse than bad assumptions...   
Steve
Sep 26, 2007, 22:42:03
 
> Security is not SELinux nor is it Appa ...   Re: Bad assumptions   
Rainer Weikusat
Sep 27, 2007, 11:38:48
 
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