From: Pavel Labushev (p.labushevgmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 02 2008 - 04:17:43 CDT

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Valdis.Kletnieksvt.edu ?????:
> On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:51:35 CDT, rholgstad said:
>> Linus doesn't care about security
>
> No, he actually *does* care about security - he's just pf the opinion
> that security fixes don't automatically rate a 'ZOMG! PWNED!' flag on
> them like certain *BSD variants think. He thinks that sticking a big

Linus is not a security expert. Not even close. He's not educated and
not experienced enough to make security decisions, but he does. That's
the problem. He cares somehow, but he's wrong.

> SECURITY PATCH tag on a fix tends to make people cherry-pick and install
> just those fixes - even though the patch they *didn't* install that
> fixes a system crash or a silent data corruption is actually more critical.

"SECURITY PATCH tag on a fix" helps me to know that there is the problem
and I must consider the patch, check its correctness and maybe
test/backport/apply it to my production systems ASAP. Just as another
tags helps me to know that there are realiability and other issues I
must care about.

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