The U.S. Defense Department's National Security Agency (NSA) has released a security-hardened version of Google's mobile OS, Android, based on SELinux.

Links to SE Android source code and instructions on putting it together can be found on the project's Web page. The focus of the project is on damage limitation rather than prevention. The target audience is clearly mobile developers, security experts, or perhaps device manufacturers, rather than regular Android smartphone users looking for a little extra privacy and security.

Initially, the SE Android project is enabling the use of SELinux in Android in order to limit the damage that can be done by flawed or malicious apps and in order to enforce separation guarantees between apps, the project documentation says.

Source: The Register