From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
To: russell@coker.com.au
Cc: SE-Linux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: Request for multiple mailing lists
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:18:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <489BBAFC.4020405@schaufler-ca.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808081208.31741.russell@coker.com.au>
Russell Coker wrote:
> On Friday 08 August 2008 03:47, Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
> wrote:
>
>> SELinux without policy is like a book without pages. Think of
>> the reference policy as the pages of the Old Testament.
>>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisegesis
>
> The problem with such analogies is that SE Linux policy is designed to be
> unambiguous. See the above URL for details of the issue
I did not mean to start a religious argument. Use any of these
substitutions for "the Old Testament" that you prefer:
"Webster's Unabridged Dictionary"
"the US Tax code"
"the NFL rule book"
Any text that is definitive, large, and technically readable
by a human being will do.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-08 3:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-07 16:41 Request for multiple mailing lists Vikram Ambrose
2008-08-07 17:47 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-08-07 18:55 ` Stanley A. Klein
2008-08-08 2:08 ` Russell Coker
2008-08-08 3:18 ` Casey Schaufler [this message]
2008-08-08 8:29 ` Andy Warner
2008-08-08 10:01 ` Vesa-Matti J Kari
2008-08-08 10:10 ` Andy Warner
2008-08-08 10:33 ` Vesa-Matti J Kari
2008-08-08 10:48 ` Russell Coker
2008-08-08 17:10 ` Joshua Brindle
2008-08-09 2:20 ` max bianco
2008-08-09 2:45 ` Russell Coker
2008-08-14 16:16 ` Stephen Smalley
2008-08-15 5:18 ` Russell Coker
2008-08-09 2:27 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-08-11 14:20 ` Vikram Ambrose
2008-08-11 15:34 ` Eric Paris
2008-08-11 17:17 ` Justin Mattock
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