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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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this is a non-issue 2006-02-04
Anonymous
This supposed "security issue" relies on the fact that someone has root authority. News flash...if an attacker has already gained root....you're already done. So...Theo's right here (no matter how much you dislike the presentation)....

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