I did not state that they had achieved nothing or question their achievments.
http://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Ke...ection_Project
Read the mission statement and in particular:
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These kinds of protections have existed for years in the PaX and grsecurity patches, and in piles of academic papers. For various social, cultural, and technical reasons, they have not made their way into the upstream kernel, and this project seeks to change that. Our focus is on kernel self-protection, rather than kernel-supported userspace protections. The goal is to eliminate classes of bugs and eliminate methods of exploitation.
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