Re: Crunch "Tweaks" OpenBSD

[Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Andrew Basterfield wrote:

> On Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:58:58 -0700

SNIP

> If you go to shopip.com (the site selling the product) they are saying
> some dangerous things about OpenBSD - they are calling it the world's most
> secure operating system... they are implying there has not been a single
> security hole in OBSD for the last 4 years.
> 
> I'm not convinced of the security of any system that has a proprietary
> closed-source webadmin interface. Plus it is based on OBSD 2.9 not 3.0, so
> I presume it's firewalling could do with an update.
> 
> Just another out-of-the-box firewall... except it has the name of an
> ex-phreaker attached to it. I don't see the advantage of this over vanilla
> OpenBSD on a nameless beige PC box maintained by someone with more than
> half a braincell.
> 
> -Andrew

I don't know if anyone from shopip is on this list, however John responds
to e-mails rather quickly.  Last thing I heard is they are working on the
upgrade to 3.0.

And yes, it is an out of the box firewall.  I would venture to guess that
most of us here wouldn't require it, but then we aren't the target
audience.