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I'm considering implementing SELinux in my Debian setup, but I've read that it was initially developed by the NSA.

Can anyone shed any light on this? Has SELinux been audited? When and by whom? Does the NSA still have anything to do with SELinux, or is this a "US Navy creating Tor" sort of scenario?

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[-] 0xtero@beehaw.org 6 points 7 months ago

SELinux has been GPL for 24 years.

It's part of what was called Rainbow Books, but is known more widely these days as the Common Criteria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Criteria

It's the "Government setting standards" sort of scenario.

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