[crackmonkey] [glen@qnx.com: OpenBSD vs FreeBSD]

[Seth David Schoen]

Nick Moffitt writes:

> ----- Forwarded message from glen mccready <glen at qnx.com> -----
> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 20:44:53 -0500 (EST)
> From: Robert Watson <robert at cyrus.watson.org>
> Subject: Re: OpenBSD vs FreeBSD
> 
> On 5 Dec 1998, Julian Assange wrote:
> 
> >> 	Do you really expect people here, on this list to say 
> >> 	"Use OpenBSD" or "Use Linux" or etc?
> > 
> > `Use NetBSD'
> 
> Use a toaster oven.  Toaster ovens have excellent network security
> characteristics.  For example, they are not susceptible to any IMAP-based
> buffer overflow attacks; additionally, current toaster ovens are not known
> to have any bugs in their TCP/IP stacks, nor have been vulnerable to any
> in the recent past (according to CERT advisories, anyway).  Toaster ovens
> require console access to perform administrative functions (such as
> modification of temperature settings), but this will not impede deployment
> in a number of environment.
> 
> ...
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----

Notably, the above does not apply to the answering machine, despite the
tremendous overlap between vendors who offer each product and the close
physical proximity of toaster ovens and answering machines in many
installations: the answering machine was the subject of an advisory posted
to BUGTRAQ earlier this year.

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