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Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:31:47 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@...e.de>,
Olaf Hering <olh@...e.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: util-linux: orphan
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 23:12:51 +0100, Karel Zak said:
> For example for my laptop is it true that "life is too short to
> enable SELinux", but it's probably not true for servers in the bank where
> I have money. (I hope so:-)
On the other hand, the case can be made that your laptop needs SELinux *more*
than the bank servers - because the bank servers are (presumably) heavily
firewalled and stripped down software-wise, and otherwise hardened. But
your laptop is exactly one Firefox buffer overflow from being completely pwned...
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