On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:37:10 -0500, John Richard Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, John Richard Moser wrote: > > > >>It's kind of like locking your front door, or your back door. If one is > >>locked and the other other is still wide open, then you might as well > >>not even have doors. If you lock both, then you (finally) create a > >>problem for an intruder. > >> > >>That is to say, patch A will apply and work without B; patch B will > >>apply and work without patch A; but there's no real gain from using > >>either without the other. > > > > > > Sure there is. There's the gain that if you lock the front door but not > > the back door, somebody who goes door-to-door, opportunistically knocking > > on them and testing them, _will_ be discouraged by locking the front door. > > > > In the real world yes. On the computer, the front and back doors are > half-consumed by a short-path wormhole that places them right next to > eachother, so not really. :) >
Then one might argue that doing any security patches is meaningless because, as with bugs, there will always be some other hole not covered by both A and B so why bother? -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
