Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:51:22 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20091210095122.a164bf95.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20091210144141.GB834@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20091210144141.GB834@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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In response to Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>: > >From my information security manager: > > FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a > (comparatively) poor security record. Most recently, for example: > > 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? Does he realize that FreeBSD has a grand total of 16 security problems for all of 2009? Hell, 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. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/
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