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Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security

Posted by timothy on from the diplomatic-mission dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The OpenBSD project has no reason to follow the steps taken by FreeBSD with regard to hardware-based cryptography because it has already been doing this for a decade, according to Theo de Raadt. 'FreeBSD has caught up to what OpenBSD has been doing for over 10 years,' the OpenBSD founder told iTWire. 'I see nothing new in their changes. Basically, it is 10 years of FreeBSD stupidity. They don't know a thing about security. They even ignore relevant research in all fields, not just from us, but from everyone.'"

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  1. Re:Framing the debate by styrotech · · Score: 5, Informative

    - Theo is a complete asshole, but also quite correct about most things. OpenBSD is rather behind the times in general, but very good at what it does do. And their stance on BSD license and making BSD tools is great.

    Yeah the bit that struck me here was that Theo was relatively complimentary about Linux and Linux devs. eg mentioning Linux also did this stuff ages ago and that OpenBSD used some research from Ted Ts'o (and others) in their implementation.

    So the complaint wasn't about credit for who was first, just about how FreeBSD got a bunch of Snowden related media coverage for something practically everyone else did ages ago as if it was something new to worry about.