Torvalds On Pluggable Security Models 216
eldavojohn writes "The KernelTrap highlights an interesting discussion on pluggable security models including some commentary by Linus Torvalds. While Torvalds argued against pluggable schedulers, he's all for pluggable security. Other members were voicing concerns with the pluggable nature of the Linux Security Model, but Torvalds put his foot down and said it stays. When asked why his stance was different between schedulers and security, he replied, 'Schedulers can be objectively tested. There's this thing called 'performance,' that can generally be quantified on a load basis. Yes, you can have crazy ideas in both schedulers and security. Yes, you can simplify both for a particular load. Yes, you can make mistakes in both. But the *discussion* on security seems to never get down to real numbers. So the difference between them is simple: one is hard science. The other one is people wanking around with their opinions.'"
Well (Score:3, Funny)
wanking around (Score:5, Funny)
Awesome (Score:3, Funny)
Thanks Linus, that cracked me up. I've always felt that way about a lot of the stuff the security guys do. I'm gonna forward that to our local security guys and see what they think!
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I feel sorry for him to have such geeky parents, though.
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Bring deRaadt in for a consult (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:I stopped reading TFA (Score:4, Funny)
You'll reprioritize when your starving children become zombies and your parent tries to kill you.
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Re:If you read all of it ... (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps if people read all of Linus's email they would be more understanding and less quick to condemn him.
If I could read all of Linus's email, I think I would be more understanding of him wanting to be able to work with security models :p.
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There, fixed that...
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I think he wrote Clippy.
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