From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: pageexec@freemail.hu
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:13:03 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807150907480.3017@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807150904290.3017@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> So as far as I'm concerned, "disclosing" is the fixing of the bug. It's
> the "look at the source" approach.
Btw, and you may not like this, since you are so focused on security, one
reason I refuse to bother with the whole security circus is that I think
it glorifies - and thus encourages - the wrong behavior.
It makes "heroes" out of security people, as if the people who don't just
fix normal bugs aren't as important.
In fact, all the boring normal bugs are _way_ more important, just because
there's a lot more of them. I don't think some spectacular security hole
should be glorified or cared about as being any more "special" than a
random spectacular crash due to bad locking.
Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't
stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in
that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the
point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.
To me, security is important. But it's no less important than everything
*else* that is also important!
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-15 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-03 3:58 Linux 2.6.25.10 Greg KH
2008-07-03 3:58 ` Greg KH
2008-07-03 17:08 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-07-03 17:29 ` Greg KH
2008-07-03 18:57 ` Greg KH
2008-07-03 19:31 ` pageexec
2008-07-14 12:04 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2008-07-15 2:14 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 2:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 15:31 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 16:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-07-17 21:08 ` Aidan Thornton
2008-07-15 19:03 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 19:16 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <487D20EC.26203.1BD1E5C5@pageexec.freemail.hu>
2008-07-15 20:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 20:23 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 20:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 21:18 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 21:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 22:08 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 23:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 0:00 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 0:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 0:38 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 0:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 1:10 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 1:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 2:24 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 3:11 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16 9:49 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 10:08 ` David Miller
2008-07-16 10:23 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 10:31 ` David Miller
2008-07-16 10:51 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 11:04 ` David Miller
2008-07-16 11:52 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 3:13 ` Greg KH
2008-07-16 9:01 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 9:35 ` Gabor Gombas
2008-07-16 10:04 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 14:43 ` Greg KH
2008-07-16 15:43 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 16:29 ` Greg KH
2008-07-16 17:25 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 18:08 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16 19:09 ` pageexec
2008-07-17 3:43 ` Mike Galbraith
2008-07-16 1:08 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16 1:30 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 1:53 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 2:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 2:36 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 4:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 4:16 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 3:27 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-07-16 4:13 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 4:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 5:02 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-16 5:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 5:26 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-07-16 9:33 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 13:21 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16 15:16 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 0:04 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 0:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 0:56 ` pageexec
2008-07-16 1:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 1:23 ` pageexec
2008-07-17 7:19 ` Rafael C. de Almeida
2008-07-17 7:59 ` pageexec
2008-07-17 4:21 ` Phil Pell
2008-07-15 18:33 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-15 20:28 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 22:39 ` Greg KH
2008-07-15 22:47 ` David Miller
2008-07-15 23:08 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-15 23:21 ` David Miller
2008-07-15 23:26 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 23:26 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-15 23:22 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 23:35 ` David Miller
2008-07-15 23:09 ` pageexec
2008-07-15 20:15 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-20 1:13 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2008-07-15 23:34 ` Tiago Assumpcao
2008-07-19 0:47 ` David Schwartz
2008-07-19 1:01 ` david
2008-07-19 1:51 ` David Schwartz
2008-07-19 5:41 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-07-05 7:54 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-07-08 4:12 ` Greg KH
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