Michael Dolan Dot Com

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Why Linux > Vista for Security (but also a tad more complex)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/19/vista_uac/

SELinux is the answer to this dilemma but it’s difficult to use. AppArmor is very similar to SELinux infunctionality, but far closer to the middle-of-the-road in terms of ease of use. It will be interesting to see if this becomes one of Linux’ advantages on the desktop or if higher levels of security remain in the datacenter realm alone.