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> The system being secure is a secondary benefit to it being comprehendible and coherent to an individual. This is a really interesting and compelling philosop
by ghostly_s 9y ago
> The system being secure is a secondary benefit to it being comprehendible and coherent to an individual.
This is a really interesting and compelling philosophy to me, but it’s the first time I’ve heard OpenBSD described this way! Why is this not mentioned on the project’s homepage?
- foodstances 9y agohttps://www.openbsd.org/goals.html https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html
- kelnos 9y agoNothing in that list says anything about being "comprehendible and coherent to an individual". I'd agree those are useful and good things, but security is indeed mentioned and emphasized there, and not as being secondary to aesthetic concerns.