LOL, I think "masturbating monkeys" is a bit rough, if bsd want to label up even the most trivial of things as "critical" as the real critical stuff then thats up to them isn't it.
However, I think he may have been taken out of context. Most 'security flaws' being ranted about -are- ridiculously trivial and could lead to a complacency (in the sense of crying wolf) on the part of those who fix the bugs and the ones who would start rolling their eyes at the constant flow of largely over-trumpeted updates.
Either way as long as stuff gets fixed then thats ok.
I thought some of the support photos of the inept were funny. If i was alowed to take photos in our support lab i could post a few classics too (like coffee stains in the dvd rom/"cup holder", A GF9800 versus a still smoking 300 watt PSU.. that kind of thing) :D
However, I think he may have been taken out of context. Most 'security flaws' being ranted about -are- ridiculously trivial and could lead to a complacency (in the sense of crying wolf) on the part of those who fix the bugs and the ones who would start rolling their eyes at the constant flow of largely over-trumpeted updates.
Torvalds wrote that disclosing the bug itself was enough, without having to label each individual security flaw. He added that taking the bugs to the "security circus" level only glorified the wrong kind of behaviour. "It makes heroes out of security people, as if the people who [...] fix normal bugs aren't as important," wrote Torvalds.
A recent ms-backed report into the security of linux and windows concluded that linux had more security flaws. However what it didnt account for was the exact nature of them as they were simply going by "number of security flaws" which was not only misleading but totally inaccurate. (as most of the linux ones were either really mundane or difficult to exploit) Either way as long as stuff gets fixed then thats ok.
I thought some of the support photos of the inept were funny. If i was alowed to take photos in our support lab i could post a few classics too (like coffee stains in the dvd rom/"cup holder", A GF9800 versus a still smoking 300 watt PSU.. that kind of thing) :D