Proposal

Pawel Biernacki pawel.biernacki at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 17:50:34 UTC 2014


On 9 April 2014 17:28, jungleboogie0 <jungleboogie0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Please let us not forget that kernel.org was hacked and not detected
> for 17 days: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/31/linux_kernel_security_breach/

I don't know why you're bringing it up here, because FreeBSD had
similar problem some time ago
(http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html) and I think that we
had learnt a lot from it.

> I would rather was 24 hours for a fix that's been verified and
> reviewed over having to re-update the system. It looks like many linux
> distros had this updated before
> freeBSD but its a matter of hours we're talking about.
>

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