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Date:      Wed, 9 Apr 2014 18:50:33 +0100
From:      Pawel Biernacki <pawel.biernacki@gmail.com>
To:        jungleboogie0 <jungleboogie0@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@icloud.com>, Walter Hop <freebsd@spam.lifeforms.nl>, =?UTF-8?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Subject:   Re: Proposal
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On 9 April 2014 17:28, jungleboogie0 <jungleboogie0@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Please let us not forget that kernel.org was hacked and not detected
> for 17 days: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/31/linux_kernel_security_breach/

I don't know why you're bringing it up here, because FreeBSD had
similar problem some time ago
(http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html) and I think that we
had learnt a lot from it.

> I would rather was 24 hours for a fix that's been verified and
> reviewed over having to re-update the system. It looks like many linux
> distros had this updated before
> freeBSD but its a matter of hours we're talking about.
>

-- 
One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never
even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.



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