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what security fix?what security fix?Posted Nov 10, 2008 18:00 UTC (Mon) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)In reply to: what security fix? by PaXTeam Parent article: Stable kernel 2.6.27.5
Well that rather depends on what it takes to "withhold" information.
I have a copy of the novel "A Fire Upon the Deep" here but those tired of this increasingly long thread will be glad to know that it was perfectly simple to "withhold" the contents of the novel from this message, I simply didn't choose to manually retype the entire thing into this little text box, saving myself hours of work.
On the other hand, this post will automatically identify me as the poster. To create another account in order to disguise my true identity would be a considerable amount of work just to withhold some information...
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what security fix? Posted Nov 10, 2008 19:24 UTC (Mon) by PaXTeam (subscriber, #24616) [Link]
are you suggesting that kernel developers send patches on paper and integrators retype them carefully avoiding the security impact related info? impressive assumption, to say the least. because if that's not how kernel development works than your example has nothing to do with this thread's topic. as a sidenote, if you have to retype something then you don't 'have' it. you would 'have' it if you could copy-paste or attach it. incidentally, that's much more like how patches flow in kernel development. so give this one another try ;).
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