On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:49:59 EDT, Ryan Sears said: > The only way to be really secure is run FreeBSD on a computer not plugged > into any network and uses absolutely nothing external (usb drives, etc). Then > it becomes a trade-off in usefulness. Also what happens when someone discovers > a 0-day in BSD?
Actually, the adage used to be "the only safe computer is a powered-down computer". And even that's not perfect - some very clever guys at UIUC managed to get a quantum CPU that wasn't powered on to do some calculations *anyhow*: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/28/paul-kwiat-on-quantum-computation/ (the original link at New Scientist seems to have gone belly-up) Now, if the program run while it's turned off has an exploitable bug in it.....
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