Who's Linus? On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Simon Valiquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> coderman un jour écrivit: > > ... hypothesis that "security researchers" are all masturbating monkey > > whores is now proven definitively. [0] > > > > """ > > Too often, so-called "security" is split into two camps: one that > > believes in nondisclosure of problems by hiding knowledge until a bug > > is fixed, and one that "revels in exposing vendor security holes > > because they see that as just another proof that the vendors are > > corrupt and crap, which admittedly mostly are," Torvalds states. > > > > Torvalds went on to say he views both camps as "crazy." > > > > "Both camps are whoring themselves out for their own reasons, and both > > camps point fingers at each other as a way to cement their own reason > > for existence," Torvalds asserts. > > """ > > > > 0. Torvalds Interview with Network World , 08/14/2008 > > > http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/081408-torvalds-security-circus.html > > > > Isn't that quite old news? Not only the article doesn't offer anything > new, but It also doesn't give the full picture and offer very little > useful information compared to the real discussion. > > I did read the thread at this time, and there was many interesting > ideas. If I happens to see an article that resume well the issues > involved, I'll post a link, but I won't spend much time searching, so > don't wait after me. > > > By the way, Linus Torvalds is very well known to enjoy starting flames > on purpose (he calls that "flamefesting"). This time, the troll was trown > at OpenBSD, but It was too big to be taken seriously by them, so It is > mostly the security people that reacted. > > I prefer the troll he launched last year when he basically said that > Gnome is just a waste of time and than both users and developers should > just give-up and move on to KDE, which would be a much better and > productive use of their time. It was said in 2007 directly on some major > Gnome mailing list, like his previous flames against Gnome. :o) > > > Simon Valiquette > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >
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