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Date:      Fri, 14 Jan 2000 06:30:06 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        John Wilson <john_wilson100@excite.com>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, aeg@iname.com
Subject:   Re: FreBSD Rulez
Message-ID:  <20000114063005.C12995@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <9059022.947853138650.JavaMail.imail@prance.excite.com>; from john_wilson100@excite.com on Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 04:32:18AM -0800
References:  <9059022.947853138650.JavaMail.imail@prance.excite.com>

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* John Wilson <john_wilson100@excite.com> [000114 04:57] wrote:
> Alexandr Gribenko wrote:
> >
> > Not to long ago two famous russian news web servers lenta.ru and vesti.ru
> > were hacked up and their contents changed by some hacker
> > To all russian community here is the interview with him in russian.
> > http://humor.21.ru/atos/090100.html The fact is that he said that he,
> > himself would use freebsd as an operating system NOT linux, which was used
> > and he hacked. ;o)
> > I by myself paranoic use openbsd for servers but my heart,workstation  and
> > laptop (soon) is FreeBSD ;o)
>    
> 
> Well having read the interview, I came to the conclusion that it's nothing
> but FUD, and the guy is not to be taken seriously.  I mean, break into any
> system?  Secure a server to make it impenetrable by attackers?  Pleeease.  
> See for yourselves.
> 
> John
>    
> [who has translated selected parts into English from the original Russian]
> 
> ...

hmm, a search for exploits on rootshell shows 116 exploits for 'linux'
and 14 for FreeBSD.

*shrug*

-Alfred


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