Re: The World's Most Secure Operating System

[security curmudgeon <jericho () ATTRITION ORG>]

> http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html
>
> A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the
> world paying attention?
>
> By Brendan I. Koerner

> This satanic cop may not make a great stuffed animal, but he's a
> fitting symbol of de Raadt's singular aim to create the world's most
> secure operating system. Coded by hundreds of volunteers worldwide,
> the freely downloadable OpenBSD is hailed by security buffs as
> uncrackable; it's been over three years, for example, since a
> vulnerability was discovered in the system's off-the-shelf version.

http://www.openbsd.org/security.html#27

This is extremely poor wording. I am not knocking OpenBSD or Theo's
efforts at all, but several vulnerabilities have been found in it. Most
(if not all of them) due to legacy code that the OBSD team is just getting
a chance to audit. Theo and his crew discover TONS of security bugs/vulns
every week. But they find and fix them before they become a public issue.

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