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Torvalds: Fed up With the 'Security Circus'

Aug 14, 2008, 19:04 (0 Talkback[s])
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"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."

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