Linus Torvalds Quotes About Security

Quotes about: Security

• The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

  Linus Torvalds

  World, Nasty, Intimidation

  "The Legacy Of Linus Torvalds: Linux, Git, And One Giant Flamethrower" by Robert Mcmillan, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.

• If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it wasn't security work, it was - masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.

  Linus Torvalds

  Done, Development, Way

  "Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. May 14, 2007.

• Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.

  Linus Torvalds

  Black And White, Thinking, People

  "Torvalds Attacks It Industry 'Security Circus'". www.cnet.com. July 18, 2008.

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