On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 23:56 -0400, Thomas Jennings wrote: > Theo de Raadt may seem like some kind of guard dog of security, but > he's really just a little bitch bought and sold by the United State > Federal Government.
I vehemently disagree with this and I feel this is a personal attack on Theo that he honestly does not deserve. > WHY SO TOUCHY, THEO? COULD IT BE BECAUSE YOU'RE COMPLICIT IN THE > BIGGEST CITIZEN SPYING PROGRAM EVER RUN IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD?! I doubt Theo has much to gain by doing this--and he has a hell of a lot to lose. It took years for OpenBSD to get a reputation as being the most secure OS out there, currently we're at nearly two decades of the existence of the OpenBSD project. I think we'd have heard by now if Theo's net worth is suddenly in the league of Bill Gates, Richard Branson, etc--and I think we haven't heard that, because he has not sold out and everything I have observed points toward the fact that he's simply not the type of person to sell out and throw his users under the bus. We don't know all of Sharyl's end of the story yet. There are vulnerabilities in ports now and then and it's quite possible that's how Sharyl got hacked. But I can tell you this, it's going to take a lot more than one random disgruntled user to convince me not to trust Theo de Raadt and the OpenBSD project any longer. And I do mean a *lot* more. -- Shawn K. Quinn <[email protected]>
