FreeBSD Security Fundamentals Presentation at Toor

Justin Lundy writes: "Last weekend Sean Lewis from Subterrain Security Group (SSG) presented a lecture on FreeBSD Security Fundamentals at Toorcon 2001 in San Diego, CA. It covers securelevels, suexec, chroot and jail, nosuid, rc.conf settings and special sysctl values. The presentation is available at http://www.subterrain.net/presentations/."

FreeBSD security

[laymil]

Its just damn nice to see that there are still people who give a damn about security without taking away privacy. He makes some interesting points....but theres really nothing new there. At least its the first article in a while that mentions security without worrying about backdoors put there intentionally by BIG BROTHER (TM) hehe.

the nice thing about the bsd section...

[Anonymous Coward]

...is that because no one reads it, the sites linked in the article won't get slashdotted

mjl.

Re:the nice thing about the bsd section...

[Anonymous Coward]

FYI Mike Bouma already wrote a brilliant report showing how BSD is between 15 and 75% faster than any other OS available for the Intel platform. On Alpha it just smokes linux and OpenVMS away.

Re:the nice thing about the bsd section...

[akharon]

And where might we find this report?

Toor?

[zentex]

?toor tog

heh...seriously...i'm assuming that's where they got "Toor" from...'root' backwards...

BSD Rocks! (new user)

[imrdkl]

Just installed a firewall for my new DSL with NetBSD. Used an old, really old, pc laptop that I paid way too much for 7 years ago, and never got much use out of it. But now with only 32megs, it kicks ass as a firewall/NAT/router combo. I save my "big iron" for the less important jobs, like webserver. :-)

Thanks to the developers and everyone else involved in the BSD effort. NetBSD reduces paranoia in a scary world.