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HTC (the guys who built the first Android phone for T-Mobile) have released a new Android-based smartphone called Hero. It’s an amazing piece of technology and looks really cute. We’ll be trying to get our hands on this one but only if it’s not SIM-locked. Not likely, since HTC is a...

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SELinux on FreeRunner
April 27th, 2009 By shazkhan

We have successfully built NSA SELinux for OpenMoko FreeRunner with support for policy 19-23 using kernel-2.6.24. Most of it was cross compilation and understanding of the kernel and userspace infrastructure of SELinux. The policy is now being developed further to suite our solutions in permissive mode....

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Recommended Stuff
August 30th, 2008 By shazkhan

lwn.net -> You can use my account username=shazkhan, password=”MMA’s international password” I’ve emailed the Xen article but there are others of interest as well. http://free-electrons.com/community/videos/conferences/ http://archive.fosdem.org/2008/media/video http://www.thelinuxlink.net/...

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Linux Weekly News
October 1st, 2007 By shazkhan

Hi everyone. Anything regarding linux, which one needs to understand from simple to intermediate level can be found here http://lwn.net/.  Although it can not help in research much it can atleast give you clues and further links for investigation.

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Needs of network for MAC
August 25th, 2007 By shazkhan

After the comparison of trendy MAC enhancements, I have been figuring out the general needs of a network for MAC. We have three places where MAC can and is enforced: In Application: Where flow control of application is controled by labeling the data of the application. Current research is limited to...

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Some new selinux ideas
July 24th, 2007 By shazkhan

I have come across some talks about enabling selinux to achieve resource utilization using rbac. This sounds as a good research area. Do we have anyone to handle this.

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IMA as a standalone service
July 22nd, 2007 By shazkhan

The following paras are from the linux mailing list which is a mail sent by ibm ima team. They are working out this userspace ima thingy. I am still not satisfied. Mr. TAT can you plz verify it? I can email u the patches and the related mails as well.  This is a request for comments for a subset...

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TPM Manager for Linux released!
July 6th, 2007 By clickforamin

Ruhr-University Bochum and Sirrix AG have developed an open source application providing an easy to use graphical user interface to manage and configure a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). The TPM Manager can be used on PC systems equipped with a TPM that is supported by the Linux kernel. Users of such...

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For SHAZ KHAN!
June 29th, 2007 By clickforamin

here are links… http://www.linux.com/articles/59932 http://www.bastille-linux.org/ http://mimirsecure.blogspot.com/ http://www.osnews.com/subthread.php?news_id=15784&comment_id=160864 http://www.linux.com/articles/58789 plz each link very closely…some detail are very hiiden…needs...

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Loadable Policy Module
June 22nd, 2007 By shazkhan

I have been throught  the architecture of loadable policy module. Its really nice. Now I am understanding to handle it and write policies accordingly. I am going through 2005 nsa technical document containing configuration of selinux policies. I hope it helps. Currently I need to know where the text...

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