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OpenBSD Vulnerabilty

Posted by timothy on from the pretty-damn-obscure dept.

*no comment* writes "Normally vulnerability reports on slashdot wouldn't make it because there are so many. This one however is for the normally very secure OpenBSD. Someone can crash an OpenBSD bridge using a newly discovered ICMP exploit. More can be read here. This shouldn't affect most people as this only affects people that use OBSD as a bridge."

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  1. Re:Are you kidding me? by Mark_MF-WN · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I didn't realize that you were "most people". You think just because YOU haven't been affected by Microsoft vulnerabilities, that most other Windows users haven't been as well? That's an invalid generalization if there ever was one.


    Slashdot is anti-microsoft for a reason -- Microsoft software is technologically inferior. It has way too many severe vulnerabilities. Without a firewall, a fresh Windows 2000 installation will have a worm within a minute of connecting to the internet. And that's without ever opening a single application. No other operating system EVER MADE can compare to that.


    No matter what fantasy world you live in, you cannot argue that Windows is not horrifically insecure.

  2. Re:Are you kidding me? by Lars+T. · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Funny, I haven't been affected by even one microsoft vulnerability.

    You may actually think so, but you probably have. Had to wait for a product you ordered because a company involved in making or shipping it was hit by a mail worm? Had a slower internet "experience" because of Blaster? Get more Spam via distributed Spam relays installed by a worm? And I'm not even counting things like not being able to get cash at the ATM because it BSODed because that's not a vulnerability.

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  3. Re:Are you kidding me? by NutscrapeSucks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > No other operating system EVER MADE can compare to that.

    Except RedHat Linux 5.x and 6.x.

    The RH releases from the same era as W2K had dozens of remote holes in the install and had serveral worms targetting them, a long with lots of script kiddie activity. A study showed that an unpatched RedHat box would be owned in in a mean time of less than 5 minutes. Someone even made t-shirts that said "My other computer is your Linux box."

    (However, like Win2000, a RH box could be secured by a competant administrator.)

    Trying to judge technological inferiority by bug counts is inane, especially because Unix/Linux doesn't really have a significantly better record than Microsoft. (Compare the record of IIS6 versus Apache over the last year or so, for example...) So I would rephrase your statement: Slashdot is anti-microsoft for a reason -- Slashdot believes their shit don't stink

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