There are different definitions of "security".  When OpenBSD is
advertised as being secure, it means that users do not have access to
root.

In contrast, this person appears to equate security with total
authoritarian control of what users can do.  My favorite quote from

 http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/OpenBSD/remove_files.htm

is

 "Telnet, lynx and cvs are removed. All are dangerous... lynx will let
 anyone who can get onto a system bring in any software they want."

So, he believes that an operating system is insecure if users can access
the internet.

Incidentally, this isn't the first time that someone has confused
OpenBSD's security claims with the ability to "lock down" users.  See

 http://marc.info/?t=126412958000002

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