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    Kinda sus... (lemmy.world)
    submitted 6 months ago by gigadadz@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    The NSA, the original primary developer of SELinux, released the first version to the open source development community under the GNU GPL on December 22, 2000.[6] The software was merged into the mainline Linux kernel 2.6.0-test3, released on 8 August 2003. Other significant contributors include Red Hat, Network Associates, Secure Computing Corporation, Tresys Technology, and Trusted Computer Solutions.

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    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 155 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (16 children)

    I mean, it's still Open Source, right? So it would be pretty hard for them to hide a backdoor or something??

    I guess I don't know what's so sus when it's easily auditable by the community and has been for two decades now.

    If it's just because it's memes and you're not being that serious, then disregard please.

    [–] spacecadet@lemm.ee 42 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I maintain open source software on a much smaller codebase that is less security critical. We have dozens of maintainers on a project with about 3k stars on GitHub. Stuff gets by that are potentially security vulnerabilities and we don’t know until upstream sources tell us there is a vulnerability

    [–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

    I'd imagine in this case there has been extra community scrutiny since it's security software and it comes from less than trustworthy source.

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