internetnews.com: Torvalds Criticizes Security Approaches

“Linux creator Linus Torvalds had a few things to say this week
about the way potential security issues are disclosed to fellow
open sourcers. And it wasn’t all good.

“His comments came as part of a mailing list discussion among
kernel developers about creating a security contact point for
people to use when potential kernel security issues arise.

“According to kernel developer Chris Wright,who began the
discussion thread, kernel security issues are currently discussed
in multiple locations, including the Linux Kernel mailing list,
Kernel maintainers and the limited access vendor-sec mailing
list…”

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