linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

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Message-ID: <20071001175441.GA34594@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
Date:	Mon, 1 Oct 2007 19:54:41 +0200
From:	Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>
To:	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 09:04:44AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> For example, you security guys still debate "inodes" vs "pathnames", as if 
> that was an either-or issue.
> 
> Quite frankly, I'm not a security person, but I can tell a bad argument 
> from a good one. And an argument that says "inodes _or_ pathnames" is so 
> full of shit that it's not even funny. And a person who says that it has 
> to be one or the other is incompetent.

Not so much incompetent as religious fundamentalist.  Which is worse.

  OG.
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