On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 01:16 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
In general, it seems that SELinux is slowly getting adopted by many, if not all distros. And yes, I would say that distros which don't have SELinux in enforcing mode by default are indeed less secure than Fedora. So to answer your question, if you disable SELinux in Fedora, it will be as secure as any distro that doesn't use SELinux, which is *less* secure than with SELinux active.
There seems to be this paranoia about SELinux being developed by the NSA, so they're afraid what they may be able to do to you. Disregarding the fact that if you were to not have SELinux, they'd still be able to do whatever they could do, probably even more so. :-p
Now at least there is a chance of getting "NSA alerts" from sealert. ;)
-- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686