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In article <3pioet$8g2@clark.net>, Stephen Balbach <stephen@clark.net> wrote:
>I would think security would be an issue with Linux - that is the one 
>drawback i have seen is as it is in continual development new security 
>holes seem to pop up - or even created by the developers intentionally 
>for whatever reason there is no controll over accountability.

That's a curious assertion.
I've not seen a security hole intentionally inserted by a kernel developer.

IMNSHO, because of the source availability and the widespread examination of
each kernel change, slipping a security hole into the Linux kernel would be
more difficult than with most other kernels.

The closest case I can think of was in the early development of the process
file system.  The permissions on a few of the "files" of this
pseudo-filesystem were more liberal than than they should have been.  This
was quickly pointed out and fixed, well before the code went into a
"released" kernel.

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