Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 06:30:06 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: John Wilson <john_wilson100@excite.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, aeg@iname.com Subject: Re: FreBSD Rulez Message-ID: <20000114063005.C12995@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <9059022.947853138650.JavaMail.imail@prance.excite.com>; from john_wilson100@excite.com on Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 04:32:18AM -0800 References: <9059022.947853138650.JavaMail.imail@prance.excite.com>
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* John Wilson <john_wilson100@excite.com> [000114 04:57] wrote: > Alexandr Gribenko wrote: > > > > Not to long ago two famous russian news web servers lenta.ru and vesti.ru > > were hacked up and their contents changed by some hacker > > To all russian community here is the interview with him in russian. > > http://humor.21.ru/atos/090100.html The fact is that he said that he, > > himself would use freebsd as an operating system NOT linux, which was used > > and he hacked. ;o) > > I by myself paranoic use openbsd for servers but my heart,workstation and > > laptop (soon) is FreeBSD ;o) > > > Well having read the interview, I came to the conclusion that it's nothing > but FUD, and the guy is not to be taken seriously. I mean, break into any > system? Secure a server to make it impenetrable by attackers? Pleeease. > See for yourselves. > > John > > [who has translated selected parts into English from the original Russian] > > ... hmm, a search for exploits on rootshell shows 116 exploits for 'linux' and 14 for FreeBSD. *shrug* -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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