FreeBSD has a bunch of not-especially-secure stuff in it, but it's generally assumed that you've read the manual and will harden and tune a system based on its

FreeBSD has a bunch of not-especially-secure stuff in it, but it's generally assumed that you've read the manual and will harden and tune a system based on its role. As a project, it doesn't have "secure by default" as a primary goal in the same way that OpenBSD does (not to say that FreeBSD developers don't care about security, just that security isn't elevated above other concerns to the same degree).