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Can anyone here speak to the risk to FreeBSD (or other BSDs)? As MacOS becomes more of a target, how much more vulnerable does FreeBSD become?
by thebigshane 14y ago
Can anyone here speak to the risk to FreeBSD (or other BSDs)? As MacOS becomes more of a target, how much more vulnerable does FreeBSD become?
- tedunangst 14y agoMost BSDs aren't running stuff like Bonjour which increases exposure to the network.
- tensor 14y agoBonjour is just Apple's name for zero config networking which most Linux and BSD distributions do support to various degrees.
- tedunangst 14y agoI was under the impression it also did file server and printer discovery among other things. I know OpenBSD doesn't do that out of the box.
- hcarvalhoalves 14y agoMost vulnerabilities are unrelated to the actual OS stack and exploit other stuff. In that particular case is even wrong to say it was a "Mac virus", since it was a Java exploit and could have affected any system with Java installed. The point is that it remained unpatched for too long on Apple's Software Update.
- duaneb 14y agoMost of the shared bits of Darwin and FreeBSD are the userland and (I think?) libc.
- GeneralMaximus 14y agoOS X != FreeBSD. It has a bunch of userland tools that are ported over from FreeBSD, and IIRC a large part of the network stack is from FreeBSD, but that doesn't mean OS X itself is FreeBSD.