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[Interesting note: this is the 100th item in b/i/t/s....] I'm not sure I really care about Linus's opinion, other than I mostly find it annoying. Mostly because I find him kind of annoying. Mostly because I find him about as arrogant as Theo Deraddt. Which is pretty annoying. The guy wrote a kernel, that doesn't make him da Vinci. But I digress.... The issue with security bugs is that they allow other people to influence your system with malicious intent. Thus, I disagree that they aren't more important, because history has shown that there are people who can, and will, exercise malicious intent and exploit those bugs to destroy or corrupt your data. That's bad. Sure, it's bad when a buggy disk or application crashes my machine, but there's nothing overtly malicious about it. resp:3 I sort of disagree, as for a while, one of the BSDs (I think it might have been OpenBSD) was releasing security advisories about ported applications. Maybe it was FreeBSD; I honestly cannot remember. FreeBSD certainly seems like the premier distribution in the BSD Unix world.
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