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Basically FreeBSD and NetBSD are better as long as you don't connect them to Internet. In particular FreeBSD security is so abysmal, once you plug it to the in

by aortega 12y ago

Basically FreeBSD and NetBSD are better as long as you don't connect them to Internet. In particular FreeBSD security is so abysmal, once you plug it to the internet you can't really say is your computer anymore. Edit: Downvote this: Windows Vista had ASLR and latest FreeBSD 10 does not.

kchoudhu 12y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Where is yours?
- aortega 12y ago
  Check any CTF or hacking contest (like Defcon CTF) They use FreeBSD as a playground.
  - ShaneWilton 12y ago
    The last time I saw FreeBSD used in a CTF, it was FreeBSD 6, back in the Kenshoto days. FreeBSD has come a long way since then. Nowadays, other than the odd ARM problem, or esoteric reversing challenge, everything is Linux. It doesn't matter anyway, though, since CTFs are designed with the express purpose of being insecure. I'm as big a fan of OpenBSD as anyone, but there's no reason someone couldn't intentionally cripple OpenBSD to use as a platform for CTFs.
  - Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd 12y ago
    I've only been playing CTFs for 2 years (iCTF 2013), but I don't think I've seen FreeBSD there once. In my experience, it's 99% Linux, with some occasional Windows and Android. Then there was last ruCTFe making a point of using some more obscure systems - Minix, OpenIndiana, etc.
  - gonzo 12y ago
    The team that won the Collegiate Cyber Defense Nationals last year did so with a firewall based on freebsd (pfSense). https://hackucf.org/blog/pfsense-at-hackucf/ https://hackucf.org/blog/pfsense-at-hackucf/
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feld 12y ago
Yes, it's impossible to hack an OS if it has ASLR /s OpenBSD has the most secure marketing message of all the BSDs. It begins and ends there. Stop banging drums, fanboys. edit: why can't we all just get along?