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Re: Penalty of SELinux?



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On 09/24/07 17:43, David Brodbeck wrote:
> 
> On Sep 24, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> But if you're worried that the NSA is targeting you, you've got a lot of
>>> more serious concerns.  Your monitor is radiating signals that can be
>>> picked up and decoded.
>>
>> Even LCD monitors?
> 
> Them too:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking#LCDs

One of the mentioned countermeasures of TEMPEST is "fonts".  I can
only guess that it means that the signals needed to generate GUIs
are much harder to interpret than a plain text console.

>>>                                                    And of course your
>>> Internet connection is easy to tap.
>>
>> GPG?
> 
> If they can theoretically slip a back door into SELinux without anyone
> noticing, surely slipping one into GPG isn't going to be hard. ;)

That's a good point...

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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