From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jul 22 07:16:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA05696 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 07:16:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from brooklyn.slack.net (root@brooklyn.slack.net [206.41.21.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA05683 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 07:16:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrewr@brooklyn.slack.net) Received: from localhost (andrewr@localhost) by brooklyn.slack.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA16576; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:21:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:21:56 -0400 (EDT) From: andrewr To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Eivind Eklund , Alexandre Snarskii , Garance A Drosihn , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Projects to improve security (related to C) In-Reply-To: <13797.901113122@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > The FreeBSD core team members, by and large, already have TODO lists > stretching well into next year. Do we want an audit to happen? Yes, > of course. Do we have time to do all the work ourselves or even > actively lead such a project in day-to-day operations? Probably not, > no. We've already gone through one security officer and another has > come close to resigning several times due to lack of time (these > people have real jobs too, you know!) - it is a real problem which Very understandable. Time is something that everyone lacks. > will only be mitigated by more USERS stepping up to the plate and > becoming volunteers themselves. They also need someone to lead them > in this effort, probably more than one person, and this is also an > area where users can contribute their time and energy. Do I hear > Andrew volunteering here? :-) Hahah, Well. I could talk to some people about starting up a team, for I do have some people in mind. Is that good enough? Andrew > > - Jordan > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message