Comment by stackghost
2 days ago
>And no, OpenBSD is not the most secure OS out there, and very few serious people claim it is.
My beef is that lots of uninformed people have been bamboozled into thinking it is more secure than it really is.
>But sure, keep talking about the two holes if you want.
Thanks for the go-ahead, I probably will.
To the point someone has made a talk validating the marketing with the actual reality,
"A systematic evaluation of OpenBSD's mitigations"
> OpenBSD markets itself as a secure operating system, but doesn't provide much evidences to back this claim. The goal of this talk is to evaluate how effective OpenBSD's security mitigation are, in a systematic, rational and comprehensive way.
https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10519-a_systematic_evaluation_of...
>> someone has made a talk validating the marketing with the actual reality
That was as of 6.6, circa 2019, to be clear. I'd be interested in what they would have to say about 7.9 at present.