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  > The problem with FreeBSD is that it has almost no
  > security features turned on by default.
What security features would you like to see turned on by default?



Stack protector for one. Though they finally did that. http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-stable&m=141495893928493&w=2


Yeah. Just saw that recently too. Good news!

ASLR is apparently around the corner+ as well.

Didn't OpenBSD get ASLR in 2008 or something like that? It only took 6 years for FreeBSD to get it.... >_<

  +for some definition of corner.


First OpenBSD commit to add ASLR was Sep 2003. Released in 3.5 on May 1 2004 (also the first release to support amd64).


Thanks for the clarification!


All of these https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features




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