[7435] in bugtraq
Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alfred Huger)
Tue Jul 28 20:49:25 1998
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:52:57 -0600
Reply-To: Alfred Huger <ahuger@SECNET.COM>
From: Alfred Huger <ahuger@SECNET.COM>
X-To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199807280321.XAA08929@jekyll.piermont.com>
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Dunno. If your ISP was running on OpenBSD it would be pretty damn
> annoying.
>
> Personally, I find the constant claims that OpenBSD is more secure
> than FreeBSD and NetBSD annoying. We all do extensive security
> work. This is just another example of a fairly common situation -- in
> which OpenBSD has a bug that other BSDs don't. Sometimes it is the
> other way around, too, but you'd think from the propaganda that it was
> always, or even usually, OpenBSD that was the most secure system.
This is quickly becoming a pissing contest. Bugtraq is not the proper
forum for this. OpenBSD has failings as do other OS's. Such is the nature
of software development.
Please in the future, if at all possible. Be mature enough not to take
this agenda motivated discussion into improper forums.
