New FreeBSD Security Officer

[Robert Watson]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jacques Vidrine wrote:

> It has been my pleasure and privilege to serve as the FreeBSD Security 
> Officer for the past 3+ years.  With the crucial support of the FreeBSD 
> Security Team members, a lot has been accomplished: hundreds of security 
> issues have been researched and tracked, with some resulting in security 
> advisories and patches;  software in the Ports Collection are updated 
> more quickly to remove vulnerabilities;  flaws are well-documented in 
> the Vulnerabilities and Exposures Markup Language (VuXML); communication 
> with other software and hardware vendors, security researchers, and 
> emergency response organizations has grown greatly;  and the FreeBSD 
> Security Branches are now supported for much longer period of time over 
> a greater number of releases.  I'd like to thank the members of the 
> security team over the past few years for these accomplishments: 
> Eivind Eklund, Julian Elischer, Chris Faulhaber, Bill Fumerola, Daniel 
> Harris, Trevor Johnson, Remko Lodder, Simon Nielsen, Christian Peron, 
> Wes Peters, Josef El-Rayes, Tom Rhodes, Gregory Shapiro, Bruce Simpson, 
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav, and Robert Watson.  Several of our previous 
> security officers have also given much help: Kris Kennaway, Warner Losh, 
> and Guido van Rooij.

Jacques,

Just wanted to let you know that the FreeBSD community greatly appreciates 
the work you've put in over the last few years.  Your work has been 
invaluable!

Thanks,

Robert N M Watson