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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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How not to respond to a security advisory 2006-01-21
Anonymous
"FreeBSD is still discussing the issue and no further response from the Linux maintainer has been received yet."

You do, of course, realize that FreeBSD is not a Linux maintainer, right? I won't start a flamewar by trying to tell you the technical & ideological differences, so I'll just say this...

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