Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on from the no fault default dept.
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) offers an over view of the security features offered by a default OpenBSD installation.
The first paragraph of the introduction reads,
In this text I will explain what makes OpenBSD secure by default when you install it. Do not take this for a security analysis, but more like a guide to help you understand what is done by OpenBSD to have a secure environment. The purpose of this text is not to compare OpenBSD to other OSes but to say what you can honestly expect from OpenBSD.
A worthy reminder of how the system works, and a very handy piece to show to anybody who wonders why one would choose to use OpenBSD over anything else. You can read the whole thing here.
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By John McCue (jmcunx) jmcq66@comcast.net on
Very nice, quite interesting and informative