alt Hacker News> I think the most practical reason not to flag which bugs are security bugs is to avoid helping blackhat hackers by painting a giant neon sign and that should be more than enough.
It doesn't work. I've looked at the kernel commit log and found vulnerabilities that aren't announced/ marked. Attackers know how to do this. Not announcing is a pure negative.
Linus argument against labeling some bugs, or even lack of features, as security vulnerabilities, is that all bugs can, with enough work and together with other circumstances, be a security vulnerability. Essentially every commit would need to be labeled as a cve fix, and then it’s just extra work for nothing.