From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 23 15:20:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from kronos.alcnet.com (kronos.alcnet.com [63.69.28.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E4315193; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:20:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kbyanc@posi.net) X-Provider: ALC Communications, Inc. http://www.alcnet.com/ Received: from localhost (kbyanc@localhost) by kronos.alcnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/antispam) with ESMTP id SAA50823; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:20:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:20:19 -0500 (EST) From: Kelly Yancey X-Sender: kbyanc@kronos.alcnet.com To: "David O'Brien" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD security auditing project. In-Reply-To: <19991123135941.A49964@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 03:23:23PM -0500, Kelly Yancey wrote: > > I may be no security expert, > > So??? You can read C code, right? What needs to happen is a leader to > take charge and give people direction. If someone gave you a few > sequences of code to look for, you could find them right? If you were > also given a typical work around, you could apply it, right? > > Not everyone in the OpenBSD project came into this with a security > mindset. Rather it was alot of getting people rallied around the cause > and teaching them how to go about it. Before we go off 1/2 cocked, we > need to get organized. > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) > Maybe I'm being modest. :) Actually I've been programming for about 10 years (surely not as long as others on this list) and taught C programming for 2 of those years. So yes, I can not only read C code, but I spew it fairly often. In any event, I suspect your comments aren't entirely directed at my quip, but rather at the sentiment. Point taken. Perhaps, I'll start taking a second-look at some of the fine BSD code I've taken for granted all these years. Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@posi.net - Richmond, VA Director of Technical Services, ALC Communications http://www.alcnet.com/ Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message