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created_at: '2011-05-12T08:35:32.000Z'
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title: Linus Torvalds on the "security circus" (2008)
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url: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/296
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author: vog
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[Source](http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/296 "Permalink to LKML: Linus Torvalds: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10")
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# LKML: Linus Torvalds: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10
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[ [lkml]][2] [ [2008]][3] [ [Jul]][4] [ [15]][5] [ [last100]][6] ![RSS Feed][7]
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Views: [[wrap]][8][[no wrap]][8] [[headers]][9] [[forward]][10]
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Messages in this thread
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* [First message in thread][11]
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* [ pageexec@freemail ...][12]
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* [Linus Torvalds][13]
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* [Linus Torvalds][14]
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* ["Aidan Thornton"][14]
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* [ pageexec@freemail ...][15]
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* [Linus Torvalds][16]
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* [Linus Torvalds][17]
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* [Phil Pell][18]
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* [Theodore Tso][19]
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* [ pageexec@freemail ...][20]
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* [Greg KH][21]
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* [David Miller][22]
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* [ pageexec@freemail ...][23]
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| ![/][24] |
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| Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:13:03 -0700 (PDT) | |
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| From | Linus Torvalds <> | |
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| Subject | Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10 |
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> So as far as I'm concerned, "disclosing" is the fixing of the bug. It's
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> the "look at the source" approach.
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Btw, and you may not like this, since you are so focused on security, one
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reason I refuse to bother with the whole security circus is that I think
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it glorifies - and thus encourages - the wrong behavior.
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It makes "heroes" out of security people, as if the people who don't just
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fix normal bugs aren't as important.
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In fact, all the boring normal bugs are _way_ more important, just because
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there's a lot more of them. I don't think some spectacular security hole
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should be glorified or cared about as being any more "special" than a
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random spectacular crash due to bad locking.
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Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't
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stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in
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that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the
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point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.
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To me, security is important. But it's no less important than everything
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*else* that is also important!
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Linus
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[1]: http://lkml.org/images/toprowlk.gif
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[2]: http://lkml.org/lkml
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[3]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008
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[4]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7
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[5]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15
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[6]: http://lkml.org/lkml/last100
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[7]: http://lkml.org/images/rss-or.gif
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[8]: http://lkml.org#
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[9]: http://lkml.org/lkml/mheaders/2008/7/15/296
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[10]: http://lkml.org/lkml/bounce/2008/7/15/296
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[11]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/3/40
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[12]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/281
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[13]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/293
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[14]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/17/464
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[15]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/413
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[16]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/425
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[17]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/472
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[18]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/17/6
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[19]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/390
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[20]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/486
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[21]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/611
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[22]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/619
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[23]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/637
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[24]: http://lkml.org/images/icornerl.gif
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[25]: http://lkml.org/images/icornerr.gif
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[26]: http://lkml.org/images/bcornerl.gif
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[27]: http://lkml.org/images/bcornerr.gif
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[28]: http://blog.jasper.es/
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[29]: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9a8e99d24cf9
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[30]: https://www.transip.nl/
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[31]: http://blog.jasper.es/categories.html#lkml-ref
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