Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262258AbVAZAPK (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:15:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262260AbVAZANY (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:13:24 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:18194 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262258AbVAZAMT (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:12:19 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:01:07 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Davidsen To: John Richard Moser cc: dtor_core@ameritech.net, Linus Torvalds , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , Christoph Hellwig , Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, Greg KH , chrisw@osdl.org, Alan Cox , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: thoughts on kernel security issues In-Reply-To: <41F6A45D.1000804@comcast.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 837 Lines: 22 On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, John Richard Moser wrote: > Thus, by having fewer exploits available, fewer successful attacks > should happen due to the laws of probability. So the goal becomes to > fix as many bugs as possible, but also to mitigate the ones we don't > know about. To truly mitigate any security flaw, we must make a > non-circumventable protection. To the extent that this means "if you see a bug, fix the bug, even if it's unrelated" I agree completely. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - 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/