Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, has never suffered fools gladly. In particular, he really dislikes people who make improving security in Linux more trouble than it needs to be. Most recently, in his ...

Proposed changes to version 4.15 of the Linux kernel resulted in Linux creator Linus Torvalds admitting that he doesn’t “trust security people to do sane things” and some security professionals, in ...

Word was that Torvalds had apologized to OpenBSD developers. ChannelWeb asked the Linux guru if that were true and whether he had any second thoughts on his initial e-mail "flame." Here is his ...

The Washington Post feature story, Net of Insecurity: The kernel of the argument, opens "Fast, flexible and free, Linux is taking over the online world. But there is growing unease about security ...