Wednesday, 3 October 2007

Torvalds Attacks Security Programmers

It’s not every time that one sees Linux founder Linus Torvalds showing his tirade against people that attack Linux. Torvalds, originally from Norway, attacked security programmers...

It’s not every time that one sees Linux founder Linus Torvalds showing his tirade against people that attack Linux. Torvalds, originally from Norway, attacked security programmers who object to adding the Smack application to the upcoming 2.6.24 Linux kernel.

Torvalds said the security programmers were being too concerned with theoretical problems and not with practical applications that was pretty important.

Smack uses Linux Security Modules, which some researchers say could be used to aid attacks on systems using the code. The researchers preferred to see Security-Enhanced Linux as the option of choice.

Torvalds said, "You security people are insane. I am tired of this 'only my version is correct' crap."

"The whole and only point of LSM was to get away from that. And anybody who claims that there is 'consensus' on Security-Enhanced Linux is just in denial."