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From: hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de (Hubert Feyrer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD security
Date: 21 Jan 1997 12:45:58 GMT
Organization: University of Regensburg, Germany
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peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu> wrote:
> hubert, are you saying that linux has paid as much (more?) attention
> to security as openbsd?  or is your comment just off-topic and nasty?

Linux? If i remember correctly, we were talking about Open- and NetBSD.
There are too many people working on too many thins under Linux, and
in the rarest case do they care about security in the first case. 
Primary goal for them is to get stuff working, often at the cost of
security, as is shown by all those CERT and other security related 
advisories regarding Linux.

And regarding my comment - you asked about the security of NetBSD, and
i gave you the answer you'll usually get from one of the OpenBSD-folks.
Nasty? Sarcastic. :)


Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>