News: 0000816342

  ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Unangst: Rethinking OpenBSD security

([Security] Mar 31, 2020 13:44 UTC (Tue) (corbet))


OpenBSD developer Ted Unangst [1]looks for lessons in a set of recent vulnerabilities in that system. " Even OpenBSD is subject to compromise for the sake of practicality, which is how some legacy designs stick around. So the lesson perhaps is to really stick with the principles that work, and not just when convenient. But not always an easy choice to make. "



[1] https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/rethinking-openbsd-security

Then there's the story of the man who avoided reality for 70 years
with drugs, sex, alcohol, fantasy, TV, movies, records, a hobby, lots of
sleep... And on his 80th birthday died without ever having faced any of
his real problems.
The man's younger brother, who had been facing reality and all his
problems for 50 years with psychiatrists, nervous breakdowns, tics, tension,
headaches, worry, anxiety and ulcers, was so angry at his brother for having
gotten away scott free that he had a paralyzing stroke.
The moral to this story is that there ain't no justice that we can
stand to live with.
-- R. Geis