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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
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Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>,
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Subject: Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD
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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." <sfourman@gmail.com> 
> > 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



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