[Wolves] Two Things

Shane M. Coughlan shane at shaneland.co.uk
Tue Jul 11 13:52:58 BST 2006


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Simon Morris wrote:
> Surely everyone now knows that AppArmor is the path to true application
> firewall nirvana? not SELinux?

Crispin Cowan: “Simplicity is the soul of security…SELinux seems to have
been designed to meet the NSA’s desire for arbitrarily complex policy at
the expense of usability…AppArmor was designed for usability – to meet
the needs of most Linux users.”

Hm.

*ahem* Sometimes security is not simple.

Imagine if we can make SELinux policies simple.  Then we'd have
fine-grained control without need PhDs in Obtuse Securification Methodology.

Shane

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