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To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Subject: Re: Another Security-related Question
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Martin McCormick wrote:
> 
>         After reading the Security section of the FreeBSD web
> site, I still have a question which has been asked of me and
> which I am relaying.
> 
>         If security holes are discovered in other versions of
> UNIX, say, Solaris or one of the Linux varieties, is there any
> mechanism under FreeBSD to see whether or not the same hole or
> exploit possibility exists in FreeBSD?
> 
>         We will be using FreeBSD servers completely exposed as in
> no firewalls, at least in the near future, and I want to be able
-------^
You can still run a packet filter like IPFW which is another line of
defense against intrusion.

> to honestly reassure them as much as humanly possible.
> 
>         My own bias is that we are probably equally at risk running
> some of the commercial OS's, but that is just my opinion.
> 
>         Thank you.
> 
> Martin McCormick
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