Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:35:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and User Security Message-ID: <20080612203258.I29647@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <62860DF8-423D-48B3-9757-CC3D24732CF0@goldmark.org> References: <200806112225.36221.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> <20080611214743.GA18371@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <200806121519.12820.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> <62860DF8-423D-48B3-9757-CC3D24732CF0@goldmark.org>
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> > But it is far from moot if you are interested in the actual threat against > your system. In a sense, using a less popular OS is a form of "security by > obscurity" which is not to be heavily relied on, but still it does make a > real, practical, difference in the case that you described. FreeBSD is "unfortunately" quite popular OS, but yes - much less popular than linux, not to mention windoze.
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