在Linux 2.6.25.10穩定版發布的郵件列表上，一位開發者提到了關于修正bug安全影響的披露政策，并再三的強調安全。Linus Torvalds回貼中表示，安全漏洞臭蟲只是眾多臭蟲的一種，過于拔高或贊美安全臭蟲的修正者是走在錯誤的方向上。Linus大神稱那幫整天炫耀 OpenBSD安全性的家伙其實是一群自慰的猴子，好像除了安全性，沒有其它東西能讓他們興奮起來。安全是重要的，但不等于一切。

原文：

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds <at> linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2008-07-15 16:13:03 GMT (18 hours and 8 minutes ago)
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> So as far as I'm concerned, "disclosing" is the fixing of the bug. It's
> the "look at the source" approach.

Btw, and you may not like this, since you are so focused on security, one
reason I refuse to bother with the whole security circus is that I think
it glorifies - and thus encourages - the wrong behavior.

It makes "heroes" out of security people, as if the people who don't just
fix normal bugs aren't as important.

In fact, all the boring normal bugs are _way_ more important, just because
there's a lot more of them. I don't think some spectacular security hole
should be glorified or cared about as being any more "special" than a
random spectacular crash due to bad locking.

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.

To me, security is important. But it's no less important than everything
*else* that is also important!

                        Linus