Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600 From: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD Message-ID: <11167f520912102342y349ebf03tccf886da0ecf53e9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091210095122.a164bf95.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20091210144141.GB834@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091210095122.a164bf95.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrot= e: > In response to Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>: > >> >From my information security manager: >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand)= and has a >> =A0 =A0 =A0 (comparatively) poor security record. Most recently, for exa= mple: >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Root-exploit-for-= FreeBSD-873352.html > > Are you trying to make your infosec guy look like an idiot? =A0Does he > realize that FreeBSD has a grand total of 16 security problems for all > of 2009? =A0Hell, Microsoft has that many in an average month. > > If he can find something (other than OpenBSD) with a better record than > that, I'd love to hear about it. Either your infosec guy is close to incompetent or this is flame bait. 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) Linux is Just horrible, and Windows well enough said :) Sam Fourman Jr. Fourman Networks
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