Alan Cox Witholds Kernel Security Information from US, Cites DMCA
Alan Cox, one of the primary developers of the Linux kernel, today released a pre-patch for the 2.2 Linux kernel. Within his changelog, he indicates there were security fixes, the details of which he apparently cannot disclose, citing legal retribution by the US government due to the DMCA.
There were also recently a few kernel security vulnerabilities fixed in the 2.2 kernel, but the ones he is speaking of here are apparently additional ones. In a linux-kernel mailing list post he states, "As it stands I cannot legally advise the US security services about Linux security issues. Normally I'd find this excruciatingly funny but in the current circumstances its rather less humourous." The thread continues with quite a few kernel developers chiming in on their thoughts and how this can be resolved.
