Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 09:19:04 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Matthew Seaman" <matthew@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Docker Message-ID: <33315.128.135.70.2.1434032344.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <55799538.2000009@FreeBSD.org> References: <20150610111135.C81EE2319B@smtp.hushmail.com> <CAC4WUHrcH6FAUBoTnQWcfy%2Bj=HAGDBvzq8U%2B88maUAmB0kuOkg@mail.gmail.com> <20150610165244.0c6f2ed7.freebsd@edvax.de> <1507965.zgzlHR604A@thinkpad> <20150611125414.6ec3c597.freebsd@edvax.de> <557988D8.6020108@hiwaay.net> <55799538.2000009@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, June 11, 2015 9:03 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 11/06/2015 09:10, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> Hmmmmm .... interesting read. One of the reasons I am migrating to *BSD >> is the presumed absence of malevolent gov't involvement (*cough* SELinux >> *cough*), I thought the BSD's were mostly/entirely free from such, no ? > > Pretty sure that there aren't any NSA agents in deep cover who have > managed to become FreeBSD committers -- not that I have any way of > telling for sure of course. To the contrary to OpenBSD which allegedly had that sort of trouble: http://slashdot.org/story/10/12/15/004235/FBI-Alleged-To-Have-Backdoored-OpenBSDs-IPSEC-Stack Well, I didn't say had, I said allegedly had... Valeri > > Certainly FreeBSD relies on openness as the best guarantee that the OS > we're shipping is free from backdoors, trojans and the like. You've got > access to the source code and the build system so you can (in principle) > review everything you build and dyke out anything you don't like. Of > course, it's a tall order to expect everyone to have the skills to be > able to do that. Consequently, internally we're strongly advocating a > culture of routine code-review before making any commits, but > particularly to any sensitive areas of the kernel. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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