Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 02:04:47 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Rob Andrews <rob@cyberpunkz.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD a good choice for high performance webservers? Message-ID: <20010928020447.A8606@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <70310952606.20010928102525@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:25:25AM %2B0200 References: <60164745040.20010926174838@buz.ch> <20010926095640.C86198@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010926123312.A51520@switchblade.cyberpunkz.org> <187172118202.20010926195131@buz.ch> <20010926220622.A92357@xor.obsecurity.org> <70310952606.20010928102525@buz.ch>
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--mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:25:25AM +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > Hello Kris, >=20 > Thursday, September 27, 2001, 7:06:22 AM, you wrote: > >> would happen if someone found a remote root hole in OpenBSD? > >> Exactly.=20 > > I'm not sure what you're trying to say here..OpenBSD has had plenty > > of remote root holes lately. >=20 > "Four years without a remote hole in the default install!" >=20 > but apparently none in the default install which is the only thing > they really care for to make the above statement. Be careful..the version they were shipping a year and a half ago (OpenBSD 2.7?) had a remote root exploit in the default install (telnetd). The "four years" number is only true by a very roundabout interpretation -- it certainly doesn't mean what you expect it to. Kris --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7tD0vWry0BWjoQKURApCpAJ9tXmBi94HAMeNLN+OMM/+5WyZZQACg+0l2 c6r4dEtWgS2dNTt2TMtuMDU= =5pA4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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