FreeBSD – A Lesson in Poor Defaults

https://vez.mrsk.me/freebsd-defaults.html

by susam • 4 years ago

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emaste2• 4 years ago

This link gets shared around every now and then, and my response is always the same: there is some useful insight, but there's also information that's so outdated it provides no value, outright misinformation, and self-contradiction. Some of the technical points are fair, and should be and are being addressed. But the commentary is often laughably wrong. The document seems more focused on advancing an agenda than a good-faith effort at improving security in FreeBSD.

Previous submissions (that have comments):

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11314648
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11318508
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12484248
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16008688
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20363705

nortonham• 4 years ago

I thought it had been updated? Either way I agree with what you wrote. I think author also had some problems with FreeBSD's code of conduct; make of that what you will.

emaste2• 4 years ago

It used to have a section at the bottom that described changes made in FreeBSD (negating some of the points made above), but it has since been deleted.

FreeBSD – A Lesson in Poor Defaults

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