*BSD is considered the safest OS

terry tyson beebum at gmail.com
Wed Nov 3 11:50:21 PST 2004


On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:45:38 +0100, Henrik W Lund
<henrik.w.lund at broadpark.no> wrote:
> 
> Actually, I read somewhere that UNIX systems are more vulnerable to
> buffer overflows than Windows systems. Can't confirm the validity of
> this, though.
> 

Buffer overflows are already being addressed.
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/auug04/
http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=573
http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html
-- 
Terry


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