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  • socsa@piefed.socialtoLinux@lemmy.mlWhy do we hate SELinux?
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    8 days ago

    SELinux isn’t really meant to be a user space “utility,” for lack of a better term. It’s meant to be an expert focused security framework for those with the expertise to both understand and implement robust security policies. Your average user daily driving Linux or even running a few self hosted services doesn’t really need complex security policies, and is definitely better served by some simpler tools.


  • If you are going to spend money on a gun, at least also spend money on steel doors and real locks for your bedrooms. If someone breaks in and actually means you harm, having a defensible keep is far and away the most important aspect of home security.

    But 99.9999% of the time, anyone who breaks into your house just wants your shit and not confrontation. Which is why insurance is more important than any gun.















  • socsa@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.worldStop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital ID
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    2 months ago

    The solution here is distributed trust by proxy. You start with a single exchange between two trusted peers, and build from there. As long as every individual link within the network is trusted, then any route between two disconnected endpoints can be trusted as well. As the network grows there is a very high statistical likelihood that there will exist many individual trust graphs between two nodes, which provides redundant validation.

    I have always thought this would make a cool chat app. You enter the network by scanning someone’s QR code to become their validated peer, and then you can theoretically communicate with anyone else on the network by exchanging keys via trust graphs. You could then build a social network on top of it which shows you how many hops it takes you to get to some celebrity or some shit.