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To: Iris7
Why is OpenBSD any more secure than a Mac? Mac OS X is based on BSD.
56 posted on 10/04/2003 3:37:17 PM PDT by bona
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To: bona
OpenBSD is more secure "out of the box".
64 posted on 10/04/2003 3:42:51 PM PDT by xrp
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To: bona
I don't really have enough experience with OS X to have an opinion worth much, but I trust the source code of OpenBSD pretty well, as it has been public for a long time. I am pretty sure there are no back doors. Actually OS X is probably the best factory OS stability wise.

Running W2K here, but any computer yet made is never secure, anyway, especially if connected to the internet and you download stuff on whim, as there are wormy programs in abundance. I have W2K source disks, and have reformatted four times in the last year! I hope I have learned my lesson!

72 posted on 10/04/2003 3:53:21 PM PDT by Iris7 (Victory, always Victory, at any cost, though the beasts of Hell march against us!!!!!)
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