diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e1217c1b5..f691fa09e 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ option(VULKAN "Enable the vulkan backend" ${AUTO_VULKAN_BACKEND})
 option(EXCEPTION_HANDLING "Enable exception handling (only works with Windows as of now)" OFF)
 option(IPO "Enable interprocedural optimizations" OFF)
 option(FUSE_LD "Linker to use" OFF)
+option(SECURITY_COMPILER_FLAGS "Whether to set security-relevant compiler flags like -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 and -fstack-protector-all" ON)
 
 if(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME STREQUAL "Emscripten")
   include(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/toolchains/Emscripten.toolchain)
@@ -293,9 +294,11 @@ if(NOT MSVC AND NOT HAIKU)
     add_cxx_compiler_flag_if_supported(OUR_FLAGS_OWN -std=gnu++17)
   endif()
 
-  # Protect the stack pointer.
-  # -fstack-protector-all doesn't work on MinGW.
-  add_cxx_compiler_flag_if_supported(OUR_FLAGS -fstack-protector-all)
+  if(NOT SECURITY_COMPILER_FLAGS STREQUAL OFF)
+    # Protect the stack pointer.
+    # -fstack-protector-all doesn't work on MinGW.
+    add_cxx_compiler_flag_if_supported(OUR_FLAGS -fstack-protector-all)
+  endif()
 
   # Disable exceptions as DDNet does not use them.
   add_cxx_compiler_flag_if_supported(OUR_FLAGS -fno-exceptions)
@@ -359,7 +362,7 @@ if(MSVC)
   endif()
 endif()
 
-if(NOT MSVC AND NOT HAIKU)
+if(NOT MSVC AND NOT HAIKU AND NOT SECURITY_COMPILER_FLAGS STREQUAL OFF)
   check_c_compiler_flag("-O2;-Wp,-Werror;-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" DEFINE_FORTIFY_SOURCE) # Some distributions define _FORTIFY_SOURCE by themselves.
 endif()
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5389536ed..b8e1a5316 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -134,11 +134,19 @@ Default value is ON for Windows x86\_64 and Linux, and OFF for Windows x86 and m
 Use the Ninja build system instead of Make. This automatically parallelizes the build and is generally faster. Compile with `ninja` instead of `make`. Install Ninja with `sudo apt install ninja-build` on Debian, `sudo pacman -S --needed ninja` on Arch Linux.
 
 * **-DCMAKE_CXX_LINK_FLAGS=[FLAGS]** <br>
-Custom flags to set for compiler when linking. With clang++ as the compiler this can be [used to link](https://github.com/rui314/mold#how-to-use) with [mold](https://github.com/rui314/mold), speeds up linking by a factor of ~10:
+Custom flags to set for compiler when linking.
 
-```bash
-CC=clang CXX=clang++ cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_LINK_FLAGS="--ld-path=/usr/bin/mold" .
-```
+* **-DEXCEPTION_HANDLING=[ON|OFF]** <br>
+Enable exception handling (only works with Windows as of now, uses DrMingw there). Default value is OFF.
+
+* **-DIPO=[ON|OFF]** <br>
+Enable interprocedural optimizations, also known as Link Time Optimization (LTO). Default value is OFF.
+
+* **-DFUSE_LD=[OFF|LINKER]** <br>
+Linker to use. Default value is OFF to try mold, lld, gold.
+
+* **-DSECURITY_COMPILER_FLAGS=[ON|OFF]** <br>
+Whether to set security-relevant compiler flags like `-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2` and `-fstack-protector-all`. Default Value is ON.
 
 Running tests (Debian/Ubuntu)
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