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Fix the Bugs, Secure the System

Posted by michael on from the crunchy-on-the-outside dept.

LiquidPC writes: "OpenBSD's Louis Bertrand has put his MUSESS 2002 presentation online, entitled Fix the Bugs, Secure the System. Does an overview of OpenBSD, then explains Format String Ugliness, Buffer Overflows, The Wrong Way to Fix Overflows, along with numerous other things."

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  1. Re:Buggy by Alien54 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Just searching for 'OpenBSD Bug' on Google Groups retrieves over 20,500 queries .

    For comparion:

    windows bug = 605,000 results
    microsoft windows bug = 244,000 results
    windows nt bug = 127,000 results
    windows 98 bug = 87,400 results

    just in case you wondered.

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  2. Re:Buggy by Phosphor3k · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    try these:

    linux bug = 845,000
    gnu/linux bug = 196,000
    redhat linux bug = 71,300
    os x bug = 126,000

    What do these mean? Decide for yourself.

  3. Re:Script Kitties by Pope · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone else notice the Quicksilver G4?

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  4. Complete 4.4 BSD? by marcovje · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Cool, where is Berkely Pascal?

    (a misser from all 3 BSD's afaik)