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--On June 3, 2007 4:33:01 AM +0200 Jona Joachim <jaj@hcl-club.lu> wrote:

> On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:10:27 -0700
> Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Bill Moran wrote:
>> > OpenBSD puts security higher on its list of project goals and
>> > motivating factors than any other OS I know.
>>
>> I disagree.  I'd say that OpenBSD and FreeBSD put security in exactly
>> the same place -- at the top of the list.
>
> Sorry but I have to disagree here.
> FreeBSD ships with closed source software including following drivers:
> ath, nve, oltr, rr232x, hptmv.
> Closed source software implies potential insecurity. If security is at
> the top of the list then I see a clear contradiction here.
>
Sorry, but that's an incredibly naive statement.  *All* software implies=20
potential insecurity.  It's the nature of software.

If it were untrue, there would be no security patches for open source=20
software.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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