Re:Linus Torvalds: “Do No Harm”
by teamhappy on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:28AM
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I didn't mean that to sound like I'm in favor of turning the thing on right away.
(Also, the quotes I chose don't really help me make my case but I don't want to edit now since you've already commented on it. His first mail is way worse: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/17/767)
Basically what I'm disagreeing with is that exploit mitigation's primary purpose is finding and fixing bugs. That's just not true. Its primary purpose is to protect users from exploitable bugs that we haven't found yet (but someone else might have).
(Also, the quotes I chose don't really help me make my case but I don't want to edit now since you've already commented on it. His first mail is way worse: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/17/767)
Basically what I'm disagreeing with is that exploit mitigation's primary purpose is finding and fixing bugs. That's just not true. Its primary purpose is to protect users from exploitable bugs that we haven't found yet (but someone else might have).