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You keep posting all over this discussion about how the Linux maintainers are making a poor choice and shooting the messenger. What would you like them to do i

• GoblinSlayer 6y ago
  Indeed the situation is bad, nothing can be done. At the very least as long as they can make unintentional vulnerabilities, they are defenseless against intentional ones, and fixing only the former is already a very big deal.
• Avamander 6y ago
  > What would you like them to do instead or in addition to this? Update the processes and tools to try and catch such malicious infiltrators. Lynching researchers isn't fixing the actual issue right now.
  • yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
    > Update the processes and tools to try and catch such malicious infiltrators. How?
    • Avamander 6y ago
      That's what I'm saying kernel maintainers should figure out.
      • michaelt 6y ago
        Step 1: When a malicious infiltrator is identified, mount their head on a spike as a warning to others.
  • rincebrain 6y ago
    I saw at least one developer lamenting that they were going to potentially bring up mechanisms for having to treat every committer as malicious by default instead of not at the next kernel summit, so it's quite possible that's going to take place.
    • d110af5ccf 6y ago
      > lamenting that they were going to potentially bring up mechanisms for having to treat every committer as malicious by default I think "lamenting" is very much the wrong attitude here. Given all the things that make use of Linux today that seems like the only sane approach to me.
      • detaro 6y ago
        If people insisted on a kernel like that, that's what they'd fund and use. But apparently that's not their priority.