On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:25 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > >>so your suggesting we should make ourselves suffer for no reason just for > >>the hell of it? selinux offeres no, i repeat NO advantage over what our > >>normal security is now. > > > > > > Nobody competent to assess that I know of would agree with that statement. > > That sounds more like a description of you than of anyone else. > > To my ears, it sounds like > > "Nobody who disagrees with me can have an opinion worth listening > to." > ---- do you use a screen reader program? How else could your ears perceive that? there are few on this list with the credentials of Alan's but you are free to interpret his statement any way you choose. The point is now and has always been that Red Hat is packaging for the widest array of possible users, some of whom will not want SELinux but some... http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/15/red-hat-linux-gets-top-government-security-rating_1.html who very much value the security benefits of SELinux Evidently, it takes a peculiar mix of ignorance and arrogance to endlessly argue about the lack of merits concerning SELinux when in fact, there are a number of significantly informed people who feel otherwise. -- Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
