"... the misdeeds of security industry and security researchers who become famous by uncovering the mistakes that people like Torvalds have missed." (from the a

"... the misdeeds of security industry and security researchers who become famous by uncovering the mistakes that people like Torvalds have missed." (from the article) That's kind of what he's talking about though, isn't it? That idiot who let the vulnerable code go live to half the world in the case of a Linux vulnerability would be Linus. You'd have to argue pretty well to be able to convince anyone that Linus is an idiot though! Security (especially at a kernel level) is likely far too complex to be just a checklist of "don't do this" or "do this" and it magically becomes secure.