With tremendous respect to Linus, this isn&#x27;t a fair characterization of the &quot;security community&quot;, whatever that means. There are both practitioners and vendors who take the view that security should enable business, not block it; there are groups of experts who run contrary to this, and believe in a reductive and restrictive approach to everything. The continuum of thought around what it means to be secure, especially when dealing with organizational security, <i>seems</i> to be shifting towards the former, rather than the latter.<p>As far as Linus&#x27; statements go, saying that security is imperfect by design isn&#x27;t a new take on it, and I&#x27;m in complete agreement with you that it needs to be something that regular users can benefit from.