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Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn
hypnosec writes "Linus Torvalds, in response to a petition on Change.org to remove RdRand from /dev/random, has lambasted the petitioner by called him ignorant for not understanding the code in the Linux Kernel. Kyle Condon from the UK raised a petition on Change.org to get Linus to remove RdRand from /dev/random in a bid 'to improve the overall security of the linux kernel.' In his response, Torvalds asked Condon and the supporters of the petition to gain an understanding of Linux drivers and cryptography, and then 'come back here and admit to the world that you were wrong.' Torvalds stressed that kernel maintainers knew what they were doing and the petitioner didn't. Torvalds, in a similar outburst just yesterday, hoped that 'ARM SoC hardware designers all die in some incredibly painful accident.' This came in response to a message from Kevin Hilman when he noted that there were quite a few conflicts in the ARM SoC pull request for Linux 3.12 which were a result of the platform changes conflicting with driver changes going in to the V4L tree."
ARM SoC hardware designers world wide smile into their hand.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Yeah, it's just Finnish humour that's being taken badly. I know he's been in the US for a long time, but he's not being mean, it's just a way of expression that it appears many don't get. !Still, the AC could always email Linus and ask him to change, I'm sure he'd appreciate the input.
Waiting for an amusing sig.
Are you suggesting that the kernel should kill of application in userspace using this instruction? Are there any other instructions you morally object to?
Op code 666
I'd read TMZ.
Man, I can't wait until the /. submitters discover Theo de Raadt.
If you were me, you'd be good lookin'. - six string samurai
'"ARM SoC hardware designers all die in some incredibly painful accident."
I mean, maybe Linus hasn't had the experience of losing someone in an incredibly painful accident.
Well, how is he supposed to hope people die? Being batted by soft pillows while sitting in the comfy chair?
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
Indeed. We tried to warn the world about this almost twenty years ago, but nobody listened.
RDRAND will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.
It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your car keys when you are late for work.
RDRAND will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Discover card.
It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such is the power of RDRAND, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear.
It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. It will kick your dog. It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's voice mail in your voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.
RDRAND will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of Methanphedime in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase gradeschoolers with your new snowblower.