Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Jan 12 2005 - 14:12:51 EST




On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Greg KH wrote:
>
> So you would be for a closed list, but there would be no incentive at
> all for anyone on the list to keep the contents of what was posted to
> the list closed at any time? That goes against the above stated goal of
> complying with RFPolicy.

There's already vendor-sec. I assume they follow RFPolicy already. If it's
just another vendor-sec, why would you put up a new list for it?

In other words, if you allow embargoes and vendor politics, what would the
new list buy that isn't already in vendor-sec.

When I saw how vendor-sec worked, I decided I will never be on an embargo
list. Ever. That's not to say that such a list can't work - I just
personally refuse to have anything to do with one. Whether that matters or
not is obviously an open question.

Linus
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