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Date	Process	Result
October 21, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
December 17, 2005	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
January 21, 2006	Featured article candidate	Promoted
May 29, 2010	Featured article review	Kept
September 3, 2016	Featured article review	Demoted
April 12, 2020	Good article nominee	Not listed
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Understanding cited Security criticisms

Two main criticisms are made of BSDs in general and of OpenBSD in particular, the first apparently from year 2017:

      "Bugs are still easy to find in those kernels, even in OpenBSD".

and the other:

      "Two years later, in 2019, ... that while OpenBSD has some effective mitigations, a significant part of them are "useless at best and based on pure luck and superstition", arguing for a more rational approach when it comes to designing them.[64]

BSD kernel function bugs shown appeared less as manifestly incorrect software(1) than as potentially troublesome edge use conditions that belong more to calling routine checks. The [64] citation did not quite relate to the second criticism which seemed to come from an off the record discussion not found in the cited slide presentation. The citation suggests nevertheless a level of futility "useless mitigation" (maybe the Xorg root exploit??) for whichever OpenBSD one the presenter had in mind but readers here shall not know which or know of.

(1) unless for say the TCP stack ipsec example the comparison (<) of xisr->sadb_x_ipsecrequest_len to sizeof(*xisr) is not of like-to-like quanitites in the struct secpolicy *key_msg2sp() function 'bug' example. Mkhomo (talk) 12:59, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Linux, Microsoft, Halloween Papers

We mostly know that Linux sold out, and became owned by corporations. Ever since returning from BSDCon 2000 in that same year I have felt there was an entity working against me. Please confirm that halloween documents isn't focused on BSD's. I've been heavily monitored for the last 23+ years, been poisoned, gaslighted and had economic setbacks. Right now I have a NetBSD macbook pro that has a NetBSD rootkit on it, two days after installing that. What gives? Freedom has never seemed so restricted in my life! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.145.79.170 (talk) 02:02, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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