From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzdrum.ncsc.mil (zombie.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.131]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j2UHHwDo016552 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:17:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from open.hands.com (jazzdrum.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.7]) by jazzdrum.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2UHGlo4009239 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:16:48 GMT Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:26:30 +0100 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: Casey Schaufler Cc: ivg2@cornell.edu, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: Desktop apps interoperability Message-ID: <20050330172630.GA10139@lkcl.net> References: <20050330170426.86197.qmail@web31606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20050330170426.86197.qmail@web31606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 09:04:26AM -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote: > Yes, and I'm sure that you can do a configuration > of most application defaults that will be good > enough to demo. Application developers tend to > have their own ideas regarding data storage and > it is a bad idea for a system developer to > interfere with said application developer's > freedom to inovate. ... application developer's freedom to impose insecurity, through ignorance on the part of the app-developer, upon the users? no offense intended: freedom in an abstract concept [e.g. "the american way"] _always_ has limits - laws / rules / policy is defined to confine that freedom, for good or worse. l. -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.