From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Jun 4 2: 1: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8A6E37B560 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 02:01:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e54912u08571; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 02:01:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 02:01:01 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Matt Heckaman Cc: FreeBSD-ADVOCACY Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Solaris Message-ID: <20000604020101.B17973@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000604014145.A17973@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 04:52:42AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Matt Heckaman [000604 01:52] wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > ... > : A search on rootshell.com shows _55_ exploits for solaris and only > : 15 for FreeBSD. > > Yes, I saw that. The FreeBSD advisory directory contains 58 advisories, > alot are DoS attacks though that bit everyone. These are both facts I > mentioned and got the reply from him that "FreeBSD doesn't announce all > their security problems, it's just a PR game." bah! I think he just can't > believe that an OS doesn't have alot of security exploits :) In fact there's been a bunch of recent security advisories mistakenly attributed to FreeBSD when they are really third party programs which are _not_ bundled with the base system. The recent massive DDoS attacks on yahoo, ebay and other internet giants were attributed to specific vulnerabilities in solaris programs. You shouldn't waste your time on this guy, he's obviously (obliviously?) already made up his mind. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message