30 Nov
2010
30 Nov
'10
3:32 p.m.
Ben McGinnes wrote:
On 30/11/10 10:54 PM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 02:12 -0800, John Doe wrote:
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As you say, it was eventually determined that the NSA did not insert anything dodgy in the code to give them access. They only did two
I dunno, selinux is pretty dodgy....
things which caused a certain amount of questioning, to a greater or lesser extent:
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- In spite of many requests, they refused point blank to incorporate
encryption in any of the enhancements.
The reason for the second one is pretty obvious, though, they know that SELinux would be (and is) used by non-Americans and they don't want to protect foreign secrets, they want to discover them.
Um, not quite: there *are* export controls on encryption, and even if they wanted it, they couldn't.
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