in the past, patches have broken application software.
Ted
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Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 10:34 PM
To: FreeBSD Questions
Subject: FreeBSD Security Survey
Dear FreeBSD users and system administrators
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Mittelstaedt
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:20 PM
To: Colin Percival; FreeBSD Questions
Subject: RE: FreeBSD Security Survey
Colin,
Just a couple problems with the survey:
Question #6 needs a Sometimes as it is not going to be a yes
I'd have to agree with most of Ted and Gayn's points. Also, it's hard
to answer many of the questions when they are different for different
servers. Unless there is a serious bug in something like SSH, then a
paying client with a seriously firewalled server and no malicious users
might get
Dear FreeBSD users and system administrators,
While the FreeBSD Security Team has traditionally been very good at
investigating and responding to security issues in FreeBSD, this only
solves half of the security problem: Unless users and administrators
of FreeBSD systems apply the security
