Hey Everybody,
Last night's meeting was fantastic! It's always great to get a full house!
For those of you who were unable to make it, there were a number of
fantastic mini talks.
Login gave a great 15 minute rundown regarding the "audit2allow" tool to
generate selinux rules.
Login then proceeded to show how SElinux is running in lots of places...
and then SSH'd into his phone to show that it was also run SElinux. kudos
on the sshing over bluetooth from your laptop... that was cool.
Greg then gave a great demo on a very lightweight security oriented linux
called "Heads" (as opposed to the more well known "Tails" distribution.
What was more amazing was that he was running it on a pretty old laptop and
it was zippy... Though their support for mirroring displays could be a bit
clearer! It was really impressive what you can do with a two core pentium
laptop and a usb stick!
Lastly, Chuck showed off Qubes. While the install didn't finish until we'd
come back from dinner! Chuck was able to talk about the idea of separating
applications into different Xen domains. It was really cool. Though we
talked about this at and after dinner... I'm fearful that Xen is going the
way of the dodo... I wonder if in the future the Qubes people will support
other hypervisors.
Thank to Login, Greg and Chuck for presenting and thanks to everybody for
turning it into a lively and interesting round table discussion.
Later,
Tim.
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I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
constituents as "consumers".
