Re: Ubuntu 11.10 now unsecure by default

[Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:58 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:12:38 GMT, Darren Martyn said:
>
> >  Valdis - I did not know the source had gotten THAT big, still, will be
> > interesting to explore parts of it that interest me - the TCP stack for a
> > start... Also, thanks for the advice on the book :)
>
> As of this morning, Linus's git tree had:
>
> [/usr/src/linux] find * -type f | xargs cat | wc -l
> 14993265
>
> and we're still at 3.2.0-rc2.  Almost certainly will tip over 15M by the
> time Linus
> lets 3.2.0 escape.  The linux-next tree (which will become 3.3) is already
> sitting at
> somewhere north of 15.3M lines of code.  Yes, we're averaging 100K lines
> of code
> a month.
15.3M lines of code != 15.3M lines of code in use on any one system !=
15.3M lines of code that can ever involve a security boundary.

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