From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 10:33:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-in-02.piro.net (mail-out-01.piro.net [194.64.31.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28C2737BD89 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:33:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com) Received: from nil.science-factory.com (ScienceFactory-atm1-153.piro.net [195.135.137.205]) by mail-in-02.piro.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/PN-991208) with ESMTP id TAA13645; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:33:37 +0200 Received: by nil.science-factory.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 3A6E62136; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:31:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc van Woerkom To: mark.rowlands@minmail.net Cc: marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com, christian@jacken.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <00081418224200.05631@marbsd.tninet.se> (message from Mark Rowlands on Mon, 14 Aug 2000 18:09:05 +0200) Subject: Re: How safe is FreeBSD? References: <20000814133959.DB1AC2002@nil.science-factory.com> <00081418224200.05631@marbsd.tninet.se> Message-Id: <20000814173151.3A6E62136@nil.science-factory.com> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:31:51 +0200 (CEST) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At the risk of being flamed to death, this discussion of which os is more > secure or more or less likely to have backdoors than any other is really a > little irrelevant. You're right, administration is very important. The OS is only one component of the system. And of course open source itself is no guarantee that someone actually detects, understands and fixes flaws. Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message