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OpenBaSeD··on Welcome to OpenBSD [pdf]
Being the most secure OS, these days, is like being valedictorian of summer school. The reality is as soon as you install a dynamic language behind a webserver all their memory tricks are for not. They are still focusing on exploitation from 2002.
OpenBaSeD··on Welcome to OpenBSD [pdf]
And they will copy UBC, uvm locks, WAPBL, device abstraction layer. Just diff their kernel source to 4.3BSD and compare how close they are still. Their kernel is still stuck in the 80s.
OpenBaSeD··on Welcome to OpenBSD [pdf]
Actually this is not quite right. Pkgsrc pushes fixes upstream for all breakage, including the 64bit long long time_t. We just weren't born on third base thinking we scored a triple.