Google Funds Two Full-Time Linux Security Developers To help Linux maintainers stay ahead of the black hats, Google has funded two full-time Linux security developers.
Linux is becoming more secure.
Google and the Linux Foundation recently announced that Google will fund two full-time Linux security developers to focus entirely on securing the kernel.
There s always room for Linux security
improvements – especially with a project that currently weighs-in at close to 29 million lines of code, meaning there s plenty of room for mistakes. Since Linux is open source, the code is also freely available for everyone to see, even bad actors looking for vulnerabilities to exploit.