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Linux's Security Through Obscurity 215

An anonymous reader writes "The age-old full disclosure debate has been raging again, this time in no other place than at the foundations of the open-source flagship GNU/Linux operating system: within the Linux kernel itself. It beggars belief, but even Linux creator, Linus Torvalds, has advocated against the sort of openness on which Linux has thrived, arguing that security fixes to the kernel should be obscured in changelogs, saying 'If it's not a very public security issue already, I don't want a simple "git log + grep" to help find it.' Unfortunately, it's not kernel exploit writers who need to grep the changelog in order to find kernel vulnerabilities. On the contrary, it's downstream distributors who rely on changelog information in order to decide when to patch the kernels of their distributions, in order to keep their users safe."

Comment Re:Well Duh (Score 1) 1320

Seconded. I've got a 25 mile commute as well, on 101 in the bay area (on my '93 ZX-6 E1, ~50 mpg). My only problems with this drive would be solved if people would just do what is common sense: look where you want to go, and let others know (use your turn signal) before you start going there.

Being so lazy that you won't even turn your head or move your finger two inches to avoid potentially killing someone (motorcyclist or the mothers, fathers and children in another car) is unacceptable and inexcusable, no matter who or what you think you are. Driving that way won't buy you anything, especially not once you've caused one of those horrible wrecks that you're rubbernecking at once a week.

As ridiculous (yet fun) as the movie Shoot 'em up was, there's something profoundly right about what Clive Owen's character said some 20 minutes in. So many people in big, fat, expensive cars drive this way because they had to be callous assholes to get to the point where they could buy that sort of car in the first place. So they continue that trend and become callous asshole drivers, too.

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