[plug] Participate in research, learn about and use Linux security systems (last chance)

Bret Busby bret at busby.net
Sun Aug 30 13:17:42 WST 2009


On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Z. Cliffe Schreuders wrote:

>
> Reminders: Your involvement will be for one session. The session takes about 
> 3 hours. During the session you will learn about and use three security 
> systems and give feedback about them. You can't trust the programs that you 
> run with all of your privileges. A solution is to restrict what programs are 
> allowed to do. This study compares the usability of three application 
> confinement systems.
>
>

Without intending to be, or appear, argumentative, I am wondering how 
the three Linux based systems compare with the BSD distributions 
(FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc), for the same application.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992

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