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FreeBSD Gets a New Security Officer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the don't-crack-on-me dept.

ve2asm writes "As sent to the freebsd-announce mailing list, Kris Kennaway is resigning as Security Officer. The core team has approved Jacques Vidrine as the new security officer.

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  1. Re:BlatantWhoring: A good "secure your BSD" link. by cperciva · · Score: 3, Interesting

    am I the only one who thinks that securelevels stink?

    Nope. Every time the topic came up in freebsd-security, Kris used to lead the "securelevels are broken, don't use them" charge.

    To be fair, they could be a useful security feature (although a more fine-grained control would of course be superior), but you'd have to do all sorts of stuff in order for that to happen. They are still quite useful as an anti-foot-shooting device, however.

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    Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
  2. hmm by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

    As sent to the freebsd-announce mailing list, Kris Kennaway is resigning as Security Officer.

    I didn't know any actually managed to make it long enough to resign. Aren't they usually killed a few minutes after they beam down to a planet, or blown up by an exploding console?