swapping

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 12:47:20 UTC 2015


On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 08:28 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 16.01.2015, Tim wrote: 
> 
> > Of course *you* do not *use* it, it's there as a protective device
> > against *things* on your system.
> 
> Any recent Linux distribution can be secured without using selinux.
> Selinux requires at least basic knowledge and administration. Most of
> the people I installed Linux for didn't even know it was there or what
> it's good for.

You mean like the fuses in your house or the airbag in your car? When
Selinux is working you don't know it's there. When it alerts you it
means there's something wrong. I agree that the alerts are not always as
clear as they might be, but it's a fallacy to suggest that it doesn't
provide benefit.

poc



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