*BSD is considered the safest OS

W. D. WD at US-Webmasters.com
Wed Nov 3 14:27:58 PST 2004


At 13:50 11/3/2004, terry tyson wrote:
>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

What version of FreeBSD will incorporate these techniques?

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