Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2005-01-13 at 21:22, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Are there advantages and upsides? Yes. Are there disadvantages?  
> Indubitably. And anybody who disregards the disadvantages as "inevitable"
> is not really interested in fixing the game.

So the next time I find a remote root hole I should post an exploit
example targetting kernel.org to the linux-kernel list ? Now where are
you going to publish the fix - bk is down, kernel.org is down ...


Disclosre isn't quite as simple as you'd like.
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