, 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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How not to respond to a security advisory
, 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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Anonymous
The article isn't defending securelevels as useful or highly secure. It's simply saying they should either be fixed, or removed.
A crude, unqualified "won't fix because it is useless" is a bad position to take here. If it...
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