Re: Future of the security features

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Sun Oct 12 2003 - 19:38:36 EST


On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 anlar@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> The Linux kernel could be tweaked to be one nasty animal (can penguins be
> nasty?) guarding the security. Linux based systems could be a lot more secure
> with "some light tweaking" and now it is mostly up to the kernel developers.
> So, why not?

Maybe it's just me, but I didn't see the grsecurity people
send small mergeable patches to Linus ...

Then again, I wasn't watching well for most of the summer
so maybe they did submit something and I just didn't see it.

--
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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