Torvalds Slams Theoretical Security

Distro maintainers, and their lackey consumers, who bloat their GNU/Linux
distros with performance degrading security "features" should take note
of the latest exclamations of Linus Torvalds:

"Honestly, I'm pretty damn fed up with buggy hardware and completely theoretical
attacks that have never actually shown themselves to be used in practice."

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/10/21/1533228/linus-torvalds-growing-frustrated-by-buggy-hardware-theoretical-cpu-attacks

Tell 'em, Linus!  Those paranoid freaks are ruining desktop computing!

To keep my workstation free of these ridiculous "mitigations" I have
to devote some slightly significant time -- and I don't like it.

At the very least, separate the desktop workstation from the public-facing
sever as these have COMPLETELY DIFFERENT "security" concerns.

I am sick of these "the sky is falling" security-obsessed idiots.


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