Root exploit for FreeBSD

[David Southwell]

> 2009/12/11 Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net>:
> >> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:49:42 +0000
> >> From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>
> >> Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> >>
> >> Polytropon wrote:
> >> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600, "Sam Fourman Jr." 
<sfourman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> I have tried looking around and OpenBSD appears to be the undisputed
> >> >> #1 track record in terms of security and FreeBSD is #2 (I didn't
> >> >> count dragonflyBSD)
> >> >
> >> > VMS would be #0, then? :-)
> >>
> >> I dunno.  Haven't seen many MS-DOS exploits recently either...
> >
> > I'm sure that there are systems happily running MSDOS, but I bet not too
> > many are networked.
> >
> > I know that there is still a lot of VMS out there and that it has
> > remained a cash cow for HP. It lived on primarily in the banking and
> > financial sector, though I guess the use is dropping since HP recently
> > outsourced support to India and that lead to the retirement of the last
> > of the original VMS developers, Andy Goldstein.
> >
> > Also, the the end of TECO as Andy was responsible for porting it to
> > almost every platform DEC ever sold (RSX, RSTS, VMS, TOPS-10 and
> > TOPS-20, RT-11, and several others) and continued to maintain it until
> > his retirement. (Most readers of this list probably don't even remember
> > TECO.)
> >
> > And, for may years VMS had major network security problems, especially
> > the infamous default DECNET/DECNET account that lead to may compromises
> > and the second major network worm, Worms Against Nuclear Killers. (I
> > won't use the acronym so as not to offend our British readers. I found
> > out about that when the BBC interviewed me about it and I was told that
> > I could not utter the word.)
> 
> Wow, I didn't know your side don't use that word... I thought I knew
> about all the stereotypically British ones!
> 
> Do you guys have any curses or insults at all???
> 
> Chris
> 
I ran a radio show in the states - the language restrictions there 
woooooooooooow were they strict!!

David