Re: OpenBSD insecurity rumors from isopenbsdsecu.re

2020-05-11 Thread Brian Waters
If any widely-used open source software had government backdoors in it, nobody in the know would be telling folks about it in random IRC chat rooms. BW On Mon, 11 May 2020 18:13:35 -0700 wrote I was told on the chat that Linux GNU software has hardly visible NSA backdoors

Re: OpenBSD insecurity rumors from isopenbsdsecu.re

2020-05-09 Thread Brian Waters
At risk of responding without having read through the entire website, it seems to mostly be about OpenBSD's exploit mitigations, and nothing else. But OpenBSD does a lot of other things well, like doing lots of code reviews, having a culture of writing code with an eye toward security in the fir