2009/2/25 Jean-Francois <jfsimon1...@gmail.com>: > -> Would you please confirm that hacking is almost impossible ? > -> Would you confirm any personnal datas hosted on server are safe as > long as the (subnet is not compromised by false manipulation of course)
I hate to state the obvious, but no one will be able to give you such assurances outside of a paid for and underwritten insurance policy. Yes, many knowledgeable persons consider OpenBSD to be probably one of the, if not the most secure general purpose operating system. Does that mean that hacking is almost impossible? That's up to you to ensure in your deployment and depends on your definition of "almost impossible". And no sane person would claim that your hosted data was safe. People who make such claims are either overconfident and deluded or lying. And that probably applies to any OS. You want guarantees? Pay for a risk assessment and a broad insurance policy. You want OpenBSD's security profile to become even better than it is today? Hire some of the competent core developers. Other than that, OpenBSD is mostly a volunteer project, and the people who are so kind to freely give the fruits of their labour of love to you and me would be nuts to also --and without compensation-- give you guarantees that might bite them if Murphy's law struck in some weird and (less than) wonderful way. --regards, ropers
