Re: Security Questions.

From: Matthias Buelow (mkb_at_incubus.de)
Date: 06/29/05 

Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:43:01 +0200

ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin) writes:

>How long is "sometime"? SELinux was initially available in late 2000.
>>Why don't they use one of the BSD's ?
>
>>From their FAQ:

 [NSA marketing-style blah removed...]

>So it might appear to be popularity.

I guess they found that they were using a number of Lignux
installations within their organization and at government sites in
general, and, given the not too shiny security track of earlier
releases of RootHack, decided to make the thing a bit safer.
I wouldn't interpret too much into this.

mkb.