He did not write a piece of software, he wrote a piece of rhetoric which had very little to do with reality and had a lot to do with making people dislike Google and its policies.
I also write a lot of rhetoric designed to do that. The difference is I'm not a Google employee. Were I, I would fully expect to be fired, regardless of what I did with that writing (except perhaps leave it unreleased on my home computer, or write it to /dev/null).
I think you are subscribing to an incorrect and unhelpful use of the word trigger. Did you mean "upset", "annoy", "inconvenience", or "anger", perhaps?
Kernel security is good, and more kernel security is better. I'm still hoping that Linux gets W^X (Write XOR eXecute) protection like some BSDs have - it eliminates several classes of vulnerabilities at a single stroke.
I like this. It's important for many software people to understand hardware, and even if it isn't (like, you're a frontend web dev and never want to do anything else), understanding different paradigms is very useful in diversifying your thinking.
He did not write a piece of software, he wrote a piece of rhetoric which had very little to do with reality and had a lot to do with making people dislike Google and its policies.
I also write a lot of rhetoric designed to do that. The difference is I'm not a Google employee. Were I, I would fully expect to be fired, regardless of what I did with that writing (except perhaps leave it unreleased on my home computer, or write it to /dev/null).