isn't this the worst possible report??

[Julian Elischer]

On 5/10/2016 7:21 AM, Jules Gilbert via freebsd-security wrote:
> Well maybe worse, that the deal with AT&T for the BSD franchise has fallen apart...
> Okay, so I have a FreeBSD 10.1 CD-ROM,  believed to be a true copy and authentic copy.
> And I loaded it on a computer.  I did this entirely offline.  I also supplied passwords.
>
> Then I went online to get packages.
> Nothing unusual happened UNTIL the machine seized and when I rebooted I discovered it would hang and reboot.  A loop.
> I had done nothing to cause this.  I had not opened an X session nor done anything other than load packages such as maxima, cproto.  Nothing involved in the area of security.
>
> I had thought this was pretty much impossible...  Remember, this machine was brand new, I'd loaded FBSD-10.1 on it no more than an hour prior and had not messed with any of the internals.
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depending on where it rebooted, it really sounds like an infant 
mortality problem..  (failure in computer or drive).

(brand new machines have a much higher chance of failure than middle 
aged machines, as all the components burn in.)

why is this in 'security'?