> You know when you see Linus piss on security so easily, you start to wonder - maybe that joke about allowing the NSA backdoor in the kernel was actually true?
Are you referring to the article you didn't read here?
Actual takeaway:
> "The only real solution to security is to admit that bugs happen," Torvalds said, "and then mitigate them by having multiple layers, so if you have a hole in one component, the next layer will catch the issue."
Perhaps, since he tends to be on the logical side of things, his version of that would be "I couldn't care less about it."
That's so obviously not what he's saying, though, but rather that it's never something you can "win" and that you just have to be rigorous in how you mitigate it.
