Russell Coker’s Documents

Notes
I presented this paper at Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS) 2002. Since that time the acceptance of SE Linux in Debian was significantly less than I expected. But the acceptance in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora has been quite good.
http://lsm.immunix.org/ is defunct, since about 2004.
I corrected the URLs for the NSA papers I [...]

I’ve been thinking about what we need in Australia to preserve the free software community in the face of an economic collapse (let’s not pretend that the US can collapse without taking Australia down too). For current practices of using the Internet and developing free software to continue it seems that we need the [...]

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I presented this paper at Linux Kongress 2002. Since that time virtualisation systems based around VMWare, Xen, and the hardware virtualisation in recent AMD and Intel CPUs has really taken off. The wide range of virtualisation options makes this paper mostly obsolete, and what isn’t obsoleted by that is obsoleted by new developments [...]

Here are links to some instances when SE Linux prevented exploits from working or mitigated their damage: