Re: I am worried about security in FreeBSD

> https://web.archive.org/web/20210401214138/https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2018-March/018892.html

The planet's computing prioritization problem,
not even 2018 but back to 1998 and before.

"Responsible Disclosure" "Embargoed Releases" etc...
these are nothing more than scams, a whitewashing coverup
over peoples eyes, an illusion of well run security, literally security
theatre, a subjugation, whose sole purpose is to keep dirty vendors
from getting embarassed, and a prayer, a race already being won
by unseen competition, and nothing more than a cover shell for
GCHQ CIA Mossad FSB and worse, to keep exploiting you via
their Zerodium etc.

The better thing to do is "full disclosure" "0-day" FreeSpeech
and vendors to own up their crappy security or get rightfully
abandoned by the market, instead of continuing artificially propped
up like worthless unneeded politicians with their propaganda
censorship partnership buddy friends cabal bullshit.

Either way, your security is still the same today... none,
every OS kernel and userland from every vendor... exploitable at will.

But at least with full disclosure it is forced to be honestly admitted,
and you have forces working in your favor, and status out in the open
to help you evaluate choices, that all can expose and help support
and fix that festering abcess.

And when did you last setup recurring significant monthly
donation stream to your vendors, money specifically dedicated
for and exclusively directed to security...

And when did you last demand, create, and refuse to buy
anything that was not...

#OpenFabs , #OpenHW , #OpenAudit , #FormalVerification ,
#CryptoCrowdFunding , #OpenTrust , ...

Until you open your wallet and invest and do and prioritize all the
security things... you won't be getting any improved security.

Good news is that given the pathetically sad state of computing
security, even modest investment in it and new models of doing
it can yield outsized results.

It's greenfield early days with reward to first movers,
so which will you choose...