Re: How secure is OpenBSD really

2008-04-15 Thread Jernej Makovsek
Thank you bot for the quick reply.

Re: How secure is OpenBSD really

2008-04-15 Thread Jernej Makovsek
Reading the archive it seems to me that el8 was taken as a joke: List: openbsd-misc Subject:Re: main openbsd server compromised ? From: e eliab () spack ! org Date: 2002-08-15 17:11:01 [Download message RAW] no, el8 is not a serious zine, it's a joke, i'm sure reading a

Re: How secure is OpenBSD really

2008-04-15 Thread Richard Toohey
What's your point? Is OpenBSD perfect? No. Does it have flaws? Yes. Can it be broken? Yes, and you've dug something out from six years ago that may or not prove that. But the same can be said of Linux, Windows, Mac OS, etc., etc. Has every flaw/bug been discovered? No. Will there be

Re: How secure is OpenBSD really

2008-04-15 Thread Martin Schröder
2008/4/15, Jernej Makovsek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.openssh.com/txt/trojan.adv) in late July of a file server maintained by the open-source, Unix-based operating-system project. On Aug. 1, a dangerous Trojan horse program was discovered amid the code for OpenBSD, which is used by

Re: How secure is OpenBSD really

2008-04-15 Thread Die Gestalt
I'm sad to see this obvious troll working.

Re: How secure is OpenBSD really

2008-04-15 Thread Jernej Makovsek
As I said in my first post Now with this post I don`t want to start any wars. I know that nothing is bullet proof and so on but as a wannabe OBSD user I`m just interested in if this compromise was analysed and especially how the code has changed from then, what did you do to make sure that this

Re: How secure is OpenBSD really

2008-04-15 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:45:14 +0200 Jernej Makovsek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please just ignore this post! As I said in my first post Now with this post I don`t want to start any wars. I know that nothing is bullet proof and so on but as a wannabe OBSD user I`m just interested in if this

Re: How secure is OpenBSD really

2008-04-15 Thread Josh Grosse
Jernej: AFAIK there was only one provable and admitted case of an exploit of OpenBSD's public facing systems, and that was of an ftp server that happened to be hosting OpenBSD tarballs. And while FAQ 8.18 says that the project's publicly available servers at openbsd.org do not run OpenBSD, a

Re: How secure is OpenBSD really

2008-04-15 Thread Jernej Makovsek
Ok, I should study faq and some mans. Thanks Josh. And other - sorry for the inconvenience. Jernej On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Josh Grosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jernej: AFAIK there was only one provable and admitted case of an exploit of OpenBSD's public facing systems, and that

Re: How secure is OpenBSD really

2008-04-15 Thread Artur Grabowski
Jernej Makovsek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reading the archive it seems to me that el8 was taken as a joke: Yes, some random person, on a publicly available list where anyone can post, said he thought it was a joke. Your point is? Go away, little troll. //art

Re: How secure is OpenBSD really

2008-04-15 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 01:45:14PM +0200, Jernej Makovsek wrote: As I said in my first post Now with this post I don`t want to start any wars. that's hard to believe, considering the subject you used, and the 6 year old spoof ezine story you asked about. disclaimers like the above generally

How secure is OpenBSD really

2008-04-14 Thread Jernej Makovsek
Hi. I`m considering switching from Linux to OpenBSD because of the security of course. Now I wanted to be sure that I will finally be able to protect my box with smart encryption etc. (smart because anybody can write an encryption program, but few think about data that remains in RAM (even after

Re: How secure is OpenBSD really

2008-04-14 Thread Ted Unangst
On 4/14/08, Jernej Makovsek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now with this post I don`t want to start any wars. I know that nothing is bullet proof and so on but as a wannabe OBSD user I`m just interested in if this compromise was analysed and especially how the code has changed from then, what