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Why would the NSA want to make something easy to use for others?



Why wouldn't they?


Because that's not their job. The NSA sponsored the development of SELinux because they needed something to solve their problems. The current state of SELinux does that. Why would they spend resources solving problems that they don't have.


Kind of a weird counter-question? Why would any business spend more effort on building a tool than is necessary to make the tool they need? The NSA doesn't care about brownie points.




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