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posted by mrpg on Tuesday November 21 2017, @05:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the yes-but-be-nice dept.

Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has offered some very choice words about different approaches security, during a discussion about whitelisting features proposed for version 4.15 of the Linux kernel. Torvalds' ire was directed at open software aficionado and member of Google's Pixel security team Kees Cook, who he has previously accused of idiocy. Cook earned this round of shoutiness after he posted a request to "Please pull these hardened usercopy changes for v4.15-rc1."

[...] Torvalds has long been unafraid to express himself in whatever language he chooses on the kernel and has earned criticism for allowing it to become a toxic workplace. He's shrugged off those accusations with an argument that his strong language is not personal, as he is defending Linux rather than criticising individuals. On this occasion his strong language is directed at a team and Cook's approach to security, rather than directly at Cook himself. It's still a nasty lot of language to have directed at anyone.

Some 'security people are f*cking morons' says Linus Torvalds

[Reference]: [GIT PULL] usercopy whitelisting for v4.15-rc1
[Linus' Response]: Re: [GIT PULL] usercopy whitelisting for v4.15-rc1


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday November 21 2017, @08:43AM (1 child)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @08:43AM (#599583) Journal

    Sure, here I am, misspelling the downfall of the gods and the end of the world in hopes of putting it off a bit, and you have to be so helpful as to correct me? Now you've done it, and it is all on you and not on me! This whole Nibiru affair, it is on this AC right here! Not me! I tried to warn you! But would you listen? It was all "it's only aristarchus again, when has he ever been right?" Except, you remember that whole heliocentric thing? Sizes of the Moon and Sol? And how there could be no Nibiru? Oh, how quickly they forget, and how often. Fortunately, Greek Gods do not do the dämmerunging thing. They are immortal. Which if probably why Greece is doing just fine while Germany's government has just suddenly dämmerung'ed. German German-spelling Nazis, anyway. After Ragnorak, who needs an umlaut any way? Ümlaut, or Umläut, anyway?

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  • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Wednesday November 22 2017, @02:28AM

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Wednesday November 22 2017, @02:28AM (#600015) Journal

    You and that damn heliocentrism thing. Always gloating. Except where's the proof? Some "lost" treatise? Likely story. Everyone says you said it, but what if it's all just fake news?! People tweeting on their papyri...