Robert Graham made a presentation on Carnivore and his open sourced version at this years ToorCon Computer Security Expo. You can watch it in streaming real video by going to toorcon.com. skalore@nfsg.org
Founder of ToorCon (www.toorcon.com)
Well as I said my observation about NetBSD stability comes from our own experience with it. Other people will of course have different experiences considering hardware, electricity outages, patience, etc..
Solaris is one of my favorites as well. Of course, I like all BSD init type OSes.:)
- skalore skalore@nfsg.org Chairman of TooRcon (www.toorcon.com)
Hi, I am a partner of Nightfall Security Group, a San Diego based computer security thinktank which favors BSD over the other varieties of UNIX based operating systems. For security, OpenBSD wins hand down. OpenBSD has a very spartan feeling about it, the installation is text based and it requires some previous knowledge of tcp/ip, filesystems and various UNIX things. Theo, who heads the OpenBSD project is very proud that OpenBSD has had only a couple vulnerabilities found in it, since it's tenure, and most, if not all of them dealt with third-party applications. On the other hand, FreeBSD is Nightfall Security Group's choice for our servers, while OpenBSD is for our firewalls. FreeBSD in our experience is the most efficient and stable operating system that we have encountered regularly. You can bang FreeBSD with all that you got and chances are it will take it and bounce it right back. FreeBSD's security is also very good, like all BSDs, but because there primary focus is performance the FreeBSD core team does not review the source code with such scrutiny for vulnerabilities as the OpenBSD team does. FreeBSD's installation is very GUI and FreeBSD comes with a pretty complete set of drivers. Overall, FreeBSD is the most useable BSD out there. NetBSD is one of the most portable operating systems in existence. If you go to the NetBSD website, at www.netbsd.org, you will find a link to a list of hardware architectures that it can run on. The list is absolutely astounding. NetBSD lacks in our opinion true stability and their scrutiny of code for vulnerabilties needs improving. But, if you need an operating system to run on a very outdated or unique piece of hardware chances are it already has been ported to it, or it will soon. For more information you can always visit NFSG's website at www.nfsg.org - skalore@nfsg.org skalore@nfsg.org Chairman of TooRcon (www.toorcon.com)
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Robert Graham made a presentation on Carnivore and his open sourced version at this years ToorCon Computer Security Expo. You can watch it in streaming real video by going to toorcon.com.
skalore@nfsg.org
Founder of ToorCon (www.toorcon.com)
Well as I said my observation about NetBSD stability comes from our own experience with it. Other people will of course have different experiences considering hardware, electricity outages, patience, etc..
:)
Solaris is one of my favorites as well. Of course, I like all BSD init type OSes.
- skalore
skalore@nfsg.org
Chairman of TooRcon (www.toorcon.com)
Hi, I am a partner of Nightfall Security Group, a San Diego based computer security thinktank which favors BSD over the other varieties of UNIX based operating systems. For security, OpenBSD wins hand down. OpenBSD has a very spartan feeling about it, the installation is text based and it requires some previous knowledge of tcp/ip, filesystems and various UNIX things. Theo, who heads the OpenBSD project is very proud that OpenBSD has had only a couple vulnerabilities found in it, since it's tenure, and most, if not all of them dealt with third-party applications. On the other hand, FreeBSD is Nightfall Security Group's choice for our servers, while OpenBSD is for our firewalls. FreeBSD in our experience is the most efficient and stable operating system that we have encountered regularly. You can bang FreeBSD with all that you got and chances are it will take it and bounce it right back. FreeBSD's security is also very good, like all BSDs, but because there primary focus is performance the FreeBSD core team does not review the source code with such scrutiny for vulnerabilities as the OpenBSD team does. FreeBSD's installation is very GUI and FreeBSD comes with a pretty complete set of drivers. Overall, FreeBSD is the most useable BSD out there. NetBSD is one of the most portable operating systems in existence. If you go to the NetBSD website, at www.netbsd.org, you will find a link to a list of hardware architectures that it can run on. The list is absolutely astounding. NetBSD lacks in our opinion true stability and their scrutiny of code for vulnerabilties needs improving. But, if you need an operating system to run on a very outdated or unique piece of hardware chances are it already has been ported to it, or it will soon. For more information you can always visit NFSG's website at www.nfsg.org - skalore@nfsg.org
skalore@nfsg.org
Chairman of TooRcon (www.toorcon.com)