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0 pointsJdeBP8y ago0 comments

Tarring all of the BSDs with the same brush is wrong, both in general and here specifically. There's also the matter of both Matthew Dillon and Theo de Raadt discussing this topic months or even years before Google Project Zero made its discovery.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16086047

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16074531

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16075744

Moreover, the OpenBSD people have made some remarks about how it was commentaries in Linux patches and discussions on LWN that actually let the cat out of the bag this time.

* http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-myst... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16046636)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16084404

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inferiorhuman8y ago

> Tarring all of the BSDs with the same brush is wrong, both in general and here specifically.

Is that actually being done? The FreeBSD team got notified (late), the DragonFlyBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD teams did not get notified. Matt, of course, seems to have a patch already.

tptacek8y ago

The bugs Theo was talking about were unrelated to these ones.

JdeBPOP8y ago

I did point to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16074531 . However, it is also wrong to err in the other direction as you have and to say that they were unrelated. Others have already made this point in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16075744 , which I also pointed to.

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