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FreeBSD – A Lesson in Poor Defaults

• emaste 4y 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now and then, and my response is always the same: there is some useful insight, but there's also information that's so outdated it provides no value, outright misinformation, and self-contradiction.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 4y 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.
    • emaste 4y 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.