On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 14:30:17 -0400, John Aldrich <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > The disappearance of the "disable iptabes" and "disable selinux" options > > > counts as a minor annoyance, I guess. But thanks for that too! > > > > > > > Your comment is interesting since when the list members heard that this > > option would be removed it was greeted by collective opposition to its > > removal. > > > I, personally, have no use for selinux. But then I'm just a hobbyist and I'm > behind a DSL router doing NAT, so I have little need for selinux. I hope > there's some way to disable it still. Assuming you browse the web using firefox, that's changing. Dan Walsh is working on confining Firefox. It won't be ready for F9 (at least not enough to enable by default), but it's coming. And your current set up doesn't protect you from broken plugins (or firefox itself) combined with malicious data.
