From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Aug 23 11:26: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9B11573A; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:25:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id LAA13770; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:23:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id LAA17703; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:15:53 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id MAA26693; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:22:57 -0600 Message-ID: <37C19181.9046615A@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:22:57 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: E Kovarski , Alex Nash , freebsd-security@freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VPN for FreeBSD 2.2.8 and 3.2 References: <19990822231452.A18458@amber.org> <199908230336.NAA21519@cheops.anu.edu.au> <19990822234351.D18458@amber.org> <37C0DB86.838CF89E@softweyr.com> <87k8qnauj4.fsf@nyctereutes.digitalized.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG E Kovarski wrote: > Wes Peters writes: > > Christopher Petrilli wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 01:36:16PM +1000, Darren Reed wrote: > > > > > > > > Bah, so FreeBSD will be InSecureBSD ? Well, so long as the ITAR bear > > > > stands around making grizzly noises at people, it seems. > > > > > > Is this flamebait really necessary? FreeBSD is hardly insecure, and for > > > 99.999999% of the situations, set up by a knowledgable administrator, is > > > every bit as secure as OpenBSD, or anything else. > > > > Apparently Darren didn't read the blurbs about the Linux Death Match > > at the recent Chaos Computer Club campout in Germany. It was won by > > a FreeBSD box with NO offensive effort, only defense. > > > > InSecureBSD my ass. > > Would you happen to have a link to the mentioned "Linux Death Match?" Several others have asked for this as well, so here's the first mention of it: http://www.computerworld.com/home/news.nsf/all/9908102chaos The Chaos Computer Club has a page of links to mentions of their Camp in the press at: https://www.ccc.de/camp/pressreviews.html For your reading enjoyment. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message