On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 11:56:50PM -0400, Thomas Jennings wrote: [drug / alcohol withdrawal-induced rant elided]
I don't know where you get the idea OpenBSD is involved. I heard a few interviews including the one here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISXYITh09TA and she clearly said she has an Apple system. She also said "for someone to come into my home" so apparently this was not only an over the network hack but somebody had physical access to her computers. No consumer computer is safe when somebody else has physical access to it. Security 101. Intel's new BIOS would seem to provide new attack vectors. See the comments to the video and elsewhere, old news. Don't use it, no problem. Atkisson also admits she doesn't know much about computers- her own words. That's an unlikely OpenBSD user profile considering she was talking about her home and company machines. Why do you believe OpenBSD is involved at all? Are you confused by the fact Apple's OSX is based on some (Free) BSD pieces? >From the interviews it's a simple case of somebody getting access to a few PCs and installing some spyware. Can you name a consumer device and common desktop OS that can't be compromised in that situation? OpenBSD is open source and you can build the whole OS and userland from source. It seems real unlikely there is compromise or people would have noticed it. So far all the screaming and accusations haven't resulted in one reference by anybody to the alleged bad code. On the other hand the system mentioned by Atkisson is a notorious high walled garden and the people who put it out have already been implicated in collusion with the anti-freedom lobby by everybody's favorite fugitive Snowden. You really need to get a clue and you really need to apologize to Theo, all the OpenBSD developers, and everybody unfortunate enough to read your rant on these lists. As usual for people slinging accusations like you, you failed to cite anything or back up your claims. Pure FUD. To paraphase Benny Hill, "everyone's entitled to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege."
