It's quite unsettling that Linus thinks as much of security in general, given that he maintains a kernel and he's responsible for accepting its security modules

It's quite unsettling that Linus thinks as much of security in general, given that he maintains a kernel and he's responsible for accepting its security modules that are next to unusable because of their complexity. Could his general disbelief lead to a (kind of) dismissive attitude in this respect? Keep in mind he's the one that would never properly disclose of a security fix - instead of saying which problem is fixed, the general approach is to just publish a new kernel minor release and say "some security bugs are fixed, go figure".