Re: Is FreeBSD insecure?

On Sunday, 27 April 2025 at  0:30:30 +0000, Daniel Fore wrote:
> Hi Free BSD faggots,

I would ask you to moderate your tone and consider that many people
here are from a non-English speaking background and have difficulty
understanding the drivel you are spouting.  By "faggots" do you mean
bassoons or meatballs?  And what relationship does it have to your
other expletives?

> Fuck you for creating a god insecure operating system and got 4chan hacked. I couldn't go to /pol/ you commies.

Sorry, I can't parse "/pol/", and I can't see any relationship between
your issues and "commies".

What I have discovered is that 4chan was running release 10 of FreeBSD
when it was breached by unknown means.  FreeBSD 10 has not been
supported since 31 October 2018.  See
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.4R/announce/ for more details.

Security is an important issue nowadays, and no operating system is
perfect.  The FreeBSD project does everything possible to maintain its
good reputation, though so far I haven't seen anything that indicates
that the breach was the result of a FreeBSD bug.  Was it maybe a third
party application, or incorrect configuration?  Even if it was a
FreeBSD bug, security requires action by the administrators of the
site as well.  No bug fix will work if you don't install it.

Greg Lehey, not speaking for the FreeBSD Project
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