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Theo de Raadt (ruBSD 2013)

fuckyoustupidzombie · 40.8K views · 2014-01-30 · 13:47

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A roughly 14-minute interview with OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt at ruBSD 2013. He talks about making painful changes, getting real feedback, mitigation techniques compared to other OSs, and virtualization.

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Pointed to in OpenBSD and virtualization threads for Theo's candid views on security mitigations and supporting modern x86 VMs.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2014–2020

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verytrivial · 2014-05 · Recommendation

I found this ~14 minute interview with Theo de Raadt from ruBSD very interesting and apropos OpenBSD's approach to trail-blazing "painful" changes: [VIDEO] tl;dw: Changes that must be done, must be DONE. The only way to see the ACTUAL impact is to just do it already and get feedback from real users. When the dust has settled, less brave projects can follow suit. I'm donating.

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david_draco · 2020-04 · Reference

Linux security has been criticised[1] for not having security enabled by default, and for allowing users to disable the security measures. This leads to users avoiding setting minimal-rights policies, and leaving the doors open. When security is optional, policy issues in distributions also aren't fixed quickly. To limit applications rights to a minimum, SELinux, firewalls, and (systemd) sandboxes are all tools that could be used, but aren't in most installs. However, I think we are still lacking user-friendly interfaces (opensnitch is ported from MacOS). One idea could be to let the desktop environment restrict one more capability a application on every run, inform the user before running it and ask the user after if the software worked correctly. That would gradually lead to a minimum set of software rights. [1] [VIDEO]

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protomyth · 2015-08 · Reference

your link is from 2007-10-24. more recently: from ruBSD in 2013 [VIDEO] (6:36 mark) People do change their minds as they learn new things or the world changes.

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