SELinux

[keke at gol.com]

> And if you have a machine actually plugged into the internet,
> handling any untrusted content or with potentialy buggy apps (which
> is just about anything that opens an image for example) then its
> kind of useful.

heh. I guess it's even more useful if I am using the adobe 64-bit
flash plugin with a known exploit incident.

> An awful lot of attacks simply don't work because of SELinux. But
> it's your system, one of the things about Free Software is you
> control the tradeoffs on your machine not some vendor by diktat.
>
> Myself - I'm prepared to fiddle now and then with SELinux settings
> on my box so that its much harder to steal all my email, run off
> with my credit card data or just be a nuisance.

Please give me an attack scenario where all my email get stolen.