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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 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

This is also probably the reason why you lost your DARPA funding, they more than likely caught wind of the fact that those backdoors were present and didn't want to create any derivative products based upon the same.

Though this implies that the Department of Defense doesn't want to use compromised tools, since DARPA is DoD. NSA is also DoD.

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 8 points 2 years ago

They wouldn't want to use or derive any compromised software themselves. They would want any adversaries to have it implemented.

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