From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 11 19:26:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B08B106566C for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:26:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from weldon@excelsusphoto.com) Received: from mx0.excelsus.net (emmett.excelsus.com [74.93.113.252]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0146E8FC1D for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:26:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 67162 invoked by uid 89); 11 Dec 2009 18:59:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.excelsus.com with SMTP; 11 Dec 2009 18:59:52 -0000 Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:59:52 -0500 (EST) From: Weldon S Godfrey 3 X-X-Sender: weldon@emmett.excelsus.com To: Jerry McAllister In-Reply-To: <20091211154950.GA6418@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Message-ID: References: <20091210144141.GB834@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091210095122.a164bf95.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <11167f520912102342y349ebf03tccf886da0ecf53e9@mail.gmail.com> <20091211093023.009125d9.freebsd@edvax.de> <4B2207A6.7070204@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20091211154950.GA6418@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:26:36 -0000 If memory serves me right, sometime around 10:49am, Jerry McAllister told me: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:49:42AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> Polytropon wrote: >>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600, "Sam Fourman Jr." >>> wrote: >>>> I have tried looking around and OpenBSD appears to be the undisputed >>>> #1 track record in terms of security and FreeBSD is #2 (I didn't count >>>> dragonflyBSD) >>> >>> VMS would be #0, then? :-) >> >> I dunno. Haven't seen many MS-DOS exploits recently either... > > Chuckle Chuckle Chuckle. > I haven't either. > Don't see much MS-DOS network activity either... > > ////jerry > nor any AtariDOS either.