Linus: Security is "people wanking around with their opinions"

[Ben Laurie]

Peter Gutmann wrote:
> For people who don't read LKML (or get interesting bits forwarded to them),
> there's a wonderful quote by Linus Torvalds about the difference between OS
> scheduler design and security design:
> 
>   "Schedulers can be objectively tested. There's this thing called
>   'performance', that can generally be quantified on a load basis.
> 
>   "Yes, you can have crazy ideas in both schedulers and security. Yes, you can
>   simplify both for a particular load. Yes, you can make mistakes in both. But
>   the *discussion* on security seems to never get down to real numbers. So the
>   difference between them is simple: one is 'hard science'. The other one is
>   'people wanking around with their opinions'."
> 
>   http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/10/1/326534

This will be in sharp contrast to kernel design, where its just one
person wanking around with their opinions. :-)

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