Re: Desktop apps interoperability

[Tom <tom@lemuria.org>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:08:07AM -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > Look here, sonny, I've been doing MLS systems
> > since 1986 and the One Truth You Must Learn
> > is that applications can not be changed. No.
> > Don't even consider thinking in this direction.
> > This is wrong. Sometimes all that's available
> > is the binary. Sometimes they like the way it
> > works.
> 
> Ah, yes.  That's certainly the example we should be following...the
> example set by past trusted/MLS OSes.  No thanks, we're trying to solve
> real problems here...

He does have a point, though - sometimes the application can not be
changed. It may be a legacy application and for all I care, those are
the ones most in need of a protective cage.



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