http://2718.us/blog Miscellaneous Technological Geekery Tue, 18 May 2010 02:42:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://2718.us/blog/2008/05/18/since-i-already-mentioned-openbsd-for-routers/ http://2718.us/blog/2008/05/18/since-i-already-mentioned-openbsd-for-routers/#comments Sun, 18 May 2008 16:12:48 +0000 2718.us http://2718.us/blog/?p=36 I subscribe to a few security-alert email lists, most of which I skim and delete (since I already know that there are new fixes for multiple vulnerabilities in MS Windows and/or Office without being told and since I don’t care about issues with multi-thousand-dollar Oracle/Cisco/Sun products).  It’s rare that an alert really catches my eye the way the Debian/OpenSSL thing did.  I think the key thing to point out is that it seems that somewhere along the way someone in the Debian realm broke OpenSSL–that’s why this is a Debian-specific issue.  I’d also like to point out that this is why I use OpenBSD for high-security machines (i.e. router/firewall machines): careful, detailed security auditing.

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