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FreeBSD Security Fundamentals Presentation at Toor

Posted by timothy on from the locking-out-bad-guys dept.

Justin Lundy writes: "Last weekend Sean Lewis from Subterrain Security Group (SSG) presented a lecture on FreeBSD Security Fundamentals at Toorcon 2001 in San Diego, CA. It covers securelevels, suexec, chroot and jail, nosuid, rc.conf settings and special sysctl values. The presentation is available at http://www.subterrain.net/presentations/."

11 comments

  1. FreeBSD security by laymil · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its just damn nice to see that there are still people who give a damn about security without taking away privacy. He makes some interesting points....but theres really nothing new there. At least its the first article in a while that mentions security without worrying about backdoors put there intentionally by BIG BROTHER (TM) hehe.

  2. the nice thing about the bsd section... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...is that because no one reads it, the sites linked in the article won't get slashdotted

    mjl.

    1. Re:the nice thing about the bsd section... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      FYI Mike Bouma already wrote a brilliant report showing how BSD is between 15 and 75% faster than any other OS available for the Intel platform. On Alpha it just smokes linux and OpenVMS away.

    2. Re:the nice thing about the bsd section... by akharon · · Score: 1

      And where might we find this report?

  3. would be nice if we could post this up FRONT by Anonymous+Koward · · Score: 0

    course, then all the linux zealots (sorry to you normal linux lovers, it's the 10% that piss me off) would just whine "can't we put this in a BSD section" ....christ, that's what put all this good info hidden away like this in the first place.

  4. The pattern is clear: *BSD is thriving by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Evans Data study announces that BSD is one of the most popular embedded operating systems

    Evans Data Corporation, a market research company focused on the software development community, announced in their mbedded Systems Developer Survey that BSD Unix will grow to be the #5 most popular embedded operating system in 2002 -- up from this year, when BSD did not even appear on the chart. Wasabi Systems is a developer of NetBSD, the number one BSD operating system in the embedded market space.

    Embedded operating systems are used in products where computers aren't visible to the end-user, such as consumer electronics (PDAs, cell phones), household appliances, and higher-end products such as Internet boxes and servers.

    The Evans report surveyed 500 embedded systems developers to study multiple aspects of embedded systems' development, including hardware and software platforms, Linux, Java and open source software, types of applications, embedded databases and development tools. Developers indicated that open source code, royalty-free licensing and a large community of knowledgeable developers were cited as key benefits.

    Evans Data Corporation provides custom quantitative and qualitative research, as well as subscriptions to the North American Developer Survey, the International Developer Survey, the Enterprise Development Management Issues survey series, the Linux Developer series, the Database Developer Survey, the Wireless Developer Survey and the Embedded Systems Developer Survey.

    The truth is out, and it won't be contained. *BSD is thriving.

  5. How the hell am I gonna open a powerpoint doc? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I run BSD!!!

    1. Re:How the hell am I gonna open a powerpoint doc? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The site has HTML versions of the presentations. They work fine in Netscape and IE for me..

  6. Toor? by zentex · · Score: 1

    ?toor tog

    heh...seriously...i'm assuming that's where they got "Toor" from...'root' backwards...

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    Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
  7. BSD Rocks! (new user) by imrdkl · · Score: 1
    Just installed a firewall for my new DSL with NetBSD. Used an old, really old, pc laptop that I paid way too much for 7 years ago, and never got much use out of it. But now with only 32megs, it kicks ass as a firewall/NAT/router combo. I save my "big iron" for the less important jobs, like webserver. :-)

    Thanks to the developers and everyone else involved in the BSD effort. NetBSD reduces paranoia in a scary world.