Linus Torvalds: Security in Itself Is Useless, Upside Is Always Somewhere Else

Linus Torvalds always had strong opinions about hardening the Linux kernel from a security point of view and opposed some of the drastic changes proposed. In a recent interview, he explained why, in the end, kernel vulnerabilities are not all that bad as people make them be.

When a new Linux kernel vulnerability is found, it’s quickly patched, but that also means that there are numerous other problems out there that haven’t been identified just yet. When you have a piece of… (read more)

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