On Monday 23 January 2006 18:37, Bill wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:08:00 -0500 > Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake: > > > Securia gives OpenBSD a pretty nice security rating at > > http://secunia.com/product/100/ > > Hi Dave, > > I did not see how Securia gives OpenBSD a high rating... All I could > find on that page were statistics on vulnerabilities, which I think > only reflects the project. Did I miss it? Definitely credit goes to > the OpenBSD team for this - of course its why we are here in the first > place, right? :)
You are correct. Securia didn't give a rating. I was referring to my interpretation of the rather nice-looking report indicating zero unpatched vulnerabilities. I have been googling a lot lately looking for information about ways that sockets can be exploited if permissions are loose. I've run across a few for KDE and X-windows. I have had no obvious trouble with gremlins lately. I attribute that to running pf with a rule to block and drop all unsolicited in-bound traffic. I was really surprised by how much unsolicited traffic is coming my way. > But its fun to see the statistics... and 0 open vulnerabilies That's what impressed me too. > Anyway, In any case this definitely will help some saavy IT person sell > their less agile brained management on allowing OpenBSD! I recommend OpenBSD to everyone. I *am* beginning to see that switching could be quite hard for the average Joe Sixpack for a number of reasons. I'm glad I had previous exposure to unix. Dave -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"
