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.
It’s not paranoia if it’s true. Snowden showed us that they really are spying on all of us all the time
Paranoia in the sense of being concerned with the ill intent of others, not the sense of an irrational worry about about persecution. Much like how the intelligence community itself is said to have institutional paranoia.
It is much harder now that https is the standard. They still can work wig individual companies but that’s a much smaller scope.
If they’re in your OS they see the data before it’s encrypted
Exactly
They first need access. That’s not hard with proprietary focused operating systems but with a properly secured Linux or AOSP system it is much more tricky.