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FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults [Last updated: 09/27/2021] (mrsk.me)
4 points by transportheap on Nov 10, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



This link gets shared around every now and then, and my response is always the same: there is some useful insight, but there's also information that's so outdated it provides no value, outright misinformation, and self-contradiction. Some of the technical points are fair, and should be and are being addressed. But the commentary is often laughably wrong. The document seems more focused on advancing an agenda than a good-faith effort at improving security in FreeBSD.


Previous submissions (that have comments):

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11314648
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11318508
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12484248
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16008688
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20363705




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