From owner-freebsd-security Sun Aug 22 22:27: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C51DC15585 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 22:26:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11Imcp-0004tj-00; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 23:26:31 -0600 Message-ID: <37C0DB86.838CF89E@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 23:26:30 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Petrilli Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au Subject: Re: VPN for FreeBSD 2.2.8 and 3.2 References: <19990822231452.A18458@amber.org> <199908230336.NAA21519@cheops.anu.edu.au> <19990822234351.D18458@amber.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Christopher Petrilli wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 01:36:16PM +1000, Darren Reed wrote: > > > > Bah, so FreeBSD will be InSecureBSD ? Well, so long as the ITAR bear > > stands around making grizzly noises at people, it seems. > > Is this flamebait really necessary? FreeBSD is hardly insecure, and for > 99.999999% of the situations, set up by a knowledgable administrator, is > every bit as secure as OpenBSD, or anything else. Apparently Darren didn't read the blurbs about the Linux Death Match at the recent Chaos Computer Club campout in Germany. It was won by a FreeBSD box with NO offensive effort, only defense. InSecureBSD my ass. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message