On 6/6/06, Roger Neth Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Even OpenBSDin my humble opinion, the safest operating system on the
planetis crackable, if you allow anyone to come and pound away at its
network interface.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1972281,00.asp
Construed literally, that would have to mean that all operating
systems, including OpenBSD, have remote holes in their underlying
TCP/IP stack implementations. (He's talking about pounding away at the
**network interface** here!) This is manifestly unlikely. There are
probably very few operating systems with remote holes in their TCP/IP
stack implementations, and OpenBSD is probably not one of them.
Steven J. Vaugh-Nichols probably doesn't mean this--he probably means
something else. But it's not clear to me what he means, and I'm not
sure it's clear to him, either.
If he means that running OpenBSD doesn't guarantee that you'll never
get hurt by a cracker, though, he's certainly right about that.
-Eliah
