Re: [Tails-dev] SELinux & AppArmor

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Author: Andreas Kuckartz
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To: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] SELinux & AppArmor
Alan:
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:40:46 -0400 Stephen Stewart
> <stewartandco@???> wrote:
>> The NSA's SELinux or Novell's AppArmor, both of which are implemented
>> as Linux Security Modules (LSM) are compiled into the Linux kernel.
>> It seems LSMs are mutually exclusive. Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise
>> Linux use SELinux, Ubuntu and SuSE use AppArmor.
>>
> Current Tails doesn't use any LSM (they are compiled in but disabled),
> but we are in the process of using AppArmor
> (https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5370).


It is interesting to have a look at Google Trends for SELinux versus
AppArmor:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=%22selinux%22+%22apparmor%22#q=selinux%2C%20apparmor&cmpt=q

(I still prefer SELinux.)

Cheers,
Andreas