Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 19:41 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> So the non-disclosure argument is perhaps put as "equality of access at
> the point of discovery means everyone gets rooted.". And if you want a
> lot more detail on this read papers on the models of security economics
> - its a well studied field.

or in other words: you can write an exploit faster than y ou can write
the fix, so the thing needs delaying until a fix is available to make it
more equal.


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