Linus, in one of his less bright moments, called the OpenBSD team a bunch of masturbating monkeys [1]. Unfortunately, the Linux kernel's conspicuous lack of attack mitigation measures (compared to Win/Mac/OpenBSD/etc) does make one wonder who has been masturbating over the past few years.
Article could have been good but is a bit too sensationalist, e.g. pointing out that Ashley Madison runs Linux only to admit that it had nothing to do with their security breach -- OK, so why did you mention it, then?
(In truth, kernel security rarely matters for servers, because the application is usually the first line of defense. I say this as someone who runs one of the rare services where kernel security does matter, so yeah, I wish Linux did more hardening, but the article is misleading.)
Linus, in one of his less bright moments, called the OpenBSD team a bunch of masturbating monkeys [1]. Unfortunately, the Linux kernel's conspicuous lack of attack mitigation measures (compared to Win/Mac/OpenBSD/etc) does make one wonder who has been masturbating over the past few years.
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706950 (from the article)
(to be clear: I like and use Linux a lot... but Linus's disregard for security is becoming a liability)