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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 2006-01-25
Michael Favinsky
OpenBSD is one of the few production-grade UN*X projects in existence where you, as an end user, have a direct line to the OS developers, where the developers actually read your email and take the time to respond. You don't get this privilege with Microsoft, and you definitely don't get this privile...

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