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  • Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III, -The Register, July 6, 2005
    +Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005
    Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the 2005 Hackathon. +The article talks extensively about the technical background of the +attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source +quenching, and path MTU discovery. +Many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations. +They are followed by a recall of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's +struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people, +and others.
    +The article comes to the conclusion that OpenBSD was the first project +to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to +be really painless to work with.

  • @@ -34,9 +44,9 @@ The Register, July 6, 2005
    This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for poor security: -Individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists, +individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists, and last but not least: OS vendors! -In this last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of "dumbed-down, simplified +In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of "dumbed-down, simplified and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)" is described as "one of the smartest approaches to security".

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