[Gllug] Self Censorship.

[Gordon Joly]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22712.html



  Linux security self-censorship ominous
  By Jon Lasser
  Posted: 07/11/2001 at 22:12 GMT


October was a bad month for proponents of full disclosure. First, 
Microsoft's Scott Culp argued in an essay that security researchers 
shouldn't  reveal the nature of security holes in software. Then Culp 
may have found an unexpected ally in his war against full disclosure: 
Linux's second-in-command, Alan Cox.

Cox's decision to delete security-related material from the Linux 
kernel changelog seems almost to honor Culp's request that we 
suppress information useful to attackers.

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