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How not to respond to a security advisory
Jason Miller, 2006-01-18

A recently announced weakness in the BSD securelevel system isn't going to be fixed in OpenBSD. While securelevel may have problems, the vendor's security response is unacceptable and doesn't fit with their stated goals.

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TdR says loud what Linux & FreeBSD assume silently 2006-01-20
Anonymous
This "security advisory" is only publicity for RedTeam (not a security problem).
Proof: at the end of the day Linux and FreeBSD just ignored (didn't "fixed") anything.
The result is the same, in a security viewpoint.

RedTeam made false assumptions about a security problem because of a misinter...

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