Linux Security Modules Maintainers

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 26, 2007

“‘Despite my heart-felt feelings that we should support
different people in trying out different things, one of the issues
is also that I’m obviously not myself a security person. I can
‘decree’ all I want, but in the end, I really want the people
*involved* to merge security stuff,’ Linus Torvalds explained
during the ongoing discussions surrounding the Linux Security
Modules code. He added, ‘there’s the ‘core LSM hooks’ on one side,
but there’s also the ‘what modules make any sense at all to merge?’
on the other, and I really don’t have the expertise to make any
sensible judgments except for the pure ‘process’ judgment that we
should not hardcode things to just one module…!'”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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