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Date:      Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:34:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jacques Vidrine <nectar@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: New FreeBSD Security Officer
Message-ID:  <20050823233311.C85679@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <CADA95E7-71A9-485F-B262-FE859316A4C3@freebsd.org>
References:  <CADA95E7-71A9-485F-B262-FE859316A4C3@freebsd.org>

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On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jacques Vidrine wrote:

> It has been my pleasure and privilege to serve as the FreeBSD Security=20
> Officer for the past 3+ years.  With the crucial support of the FreeBSD=
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> Security Team members, a lot has been accomplished: hundreds of security=
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> issues have been researched and tracked, with some resulting in security=
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> advisories and patches;  software in the Ports Collection are updated=20
> more quickly to remove vulnerabilities;  flaws are well-documented in=20
> the Vulnerabilities and Exposures Markup Language (VuXML); communication=
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> with other software and hardware vendors, security researchers, and=20
> emergency response organizations has grown greatly;  and the FreeBSD=20
> Security Branches are now supported for much longer period of time over=
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> a greater number of releases.  I'd like to thank the members of the=20
> security team over the past few years for these accomplishments:=20
> Eivind Eklund, Julian Elischer, Chris Faulhaber, Bill Fumerola, Daniel=20
> Harris, Trevor Johnson, Remko Lodder, Simon Nielsen, Christian Peron,=20
> Wes Peters, Josef El-Rayes, Tom Rhodes, Gregory Shapiro, Bruce Simpson,=
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> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav, and Robert Watson.  Several of our previous=20
> security officers have also given much help: Kris Kennaway, Warner Losh,=
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> and Guido van Rooij.

Jacques,

Just wanted to let you know that the FreeBSD community greatly appreciates=
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the work you've put in over the last few years.  Your work has been=20
invaluable!

Thanks,

Robert N M Watson
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