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Handling kernel security problems

Handling kernel security problems

Posted Jul 16, 2008 22:54 UTC (Wed) by spender (subscriber, #23067)
In reply to: Handling kernel security problems by flewellyn
Parent article: Handling kernel security problems

And if you want to be "suitably cynical" I suppose the reason why the distributors haven't
been doing a whole lot of complaining about how security fixes are handled is because not
having as many disclosed security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel makes it look like less
of a mess.

Even Linus says himself that "they mostly do a crap job at it, only focusing on a small
percentage (the ones that were considered to be "big issues")"

-Brad


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