Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262065AbVAOFh2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:37:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262217AbVAOFh2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:37:28 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:7355 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262065AbVAOFhU (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:37:20 -0500 Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:36:36 -0500 (EST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Linus Torvalds cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Alan Cox , Dave Jones , Marek Habersack , Marcelo Tosatti , Greg KH , Chris Wright , akpm@osdl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: thoughts on kernel security issues In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20050112174203.GA691@logos.cnet> <1105627541.4624.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050113194246.GC24970@beowulf.thanes.org> <20050113200308.GC3555@redhat.com> <1105644461.4644.102.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050114183415.GA17481@thunk.org> <20050114221343.GA18140@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 969 Lines: 24 On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Sure, you can do that, and if you do that, then the world recognizes you > for what you are - nothing but a publicity-seeking creep. > > THAT is why vendor-sec is bad. It allows publicity-seeking creeps to > take on the mantle of being "good". Hey, if that motivates them to disclose the security bugs they found in a way that makes it easier for sysadmins and vendors to keep up - sounds like a fair trade-off. Everybody has their reasons for doing whatever they do. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/