Linus on security and OpenBSD

[Christopher Browne]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> As usual, one can count on Mr. T to offer an interesting and novel
> perspective (even of you disagree with it):
>
> http://www.donkeyonawaffle.org/index.py/humor/mast-monkeys.modern

He has the habit of being interestingly undiplomatic, on occasion.
It's definitely not the same sort of "undiplomatic" that required that
NetBSD split off into two communities - *that* involved genuine
nastiness.

I think that, in this case, "Mr T" is not wrong.

a) Other sorts of bugs are equally worthy of attention
b) It's not obvious that security is gained by pointing out exactly
how to identify which systems haven't yet been fixed
c) Distribution makers that *only* look for security fixes miss other
stability issues

One of the not-insignificant aspects of security is that the service
must be available, and *any* bug that adversely affects performance or
stability is relevant to that.
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