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They cite grsec, that guy is a notorious troll. I've seen customers apply their patches thoughtlessly, on bad advice, and bring down production systems. Linux security isn't perfect (if it was I would be unemployed) but a lot of those problems are solved on properly configured modern systems.
Happy to see someone informed about grsec/Spengler. I am the sole person to have documented the privacy community on internet for the past 5 years, pointing out exactly this obnoxious "security zealot" problem.