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Comment Its easy to be critical (Score 1) 164

by jpostel (#47029707) Attached to: 30-Day Status Update On LibreSSL

Bob Beck has a pretty healthy track record of throwing verbal grenades with regards (but not limited) to open source licenses, security, and other people's code.

That said, looking at published vulnerabilities (CVEdetails.com), OpenSSH and OpenBSD have a tremendous record for fixing (or simply not having) serious security bugs. The total number of vulnerabilities in OpenSSH (application) since 1999 is 61 (11 being DOS) and NONE have known exploits. OpenBSD (an entire OS) has 136 (57 being DOS) since 1999 with 4 known exploits.

By Comparison, OpenSSL (a protocol library) has 87 (46 are DOS) with 5 known exploits.

None of these are egregious compared to other UNIX OS platforms like AIX (316), Solaris (533), and HPUX (278).

I don't think the OpenSSL folks are bad, but they let the product stagnate a bit. Getting some new perspective on it is a good thing.

Submission + - U-2 Caused Widespread Shutdown of US Flights out of LAX 2

Submitted by Hugh Pickens DOT Com
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: Reuters reports that last week's computer glitch at a California air traffic control center that led officials to halt takeoffs at Los Angeles International Airport was caused by a U-2 spy plane still in use by the US military, passing through air space monitored by the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center that appears to have overloaded ERAM, a computer system at the center. According to NBC News, computers at the center began operations to prevent the U-2 from colliding with other aircraft, even though the U-2 was flying at an altitude of 60,000 feet and other airplanes passing through the region's air space were miles below. FAA technical specialists resolved the specific issue that triggered the problem on Wednesday, and the FAA has put in place mitigation measures as engineers complete development of software changes,” said the agency in a statement. “The FAA will fully analyze the event to resolve any underlying issues that contributed to the incident and prevent a reoccurrence.” The U.S. Air Force is still flying U-2s, but plans to retire them within the next few years. The U-2 was slated for retirement in 2006 in favor of the unmanned Global Hawk Block 30 system, before the Air Force pulled an about-face two years ago and declared the Global Hawk too expensive and insufficient for the needs of combatant commanders.

Comment Re:Oh please (or tales from the front line) (Score 1) 380

by lumbercartel.ca (#36955428) Attached to: Study Compares IQ With Browser Choice

I know of a user who just last week replaced Microsoft's broken Java from years ago (remember when Sun won that lawsuit against Microsoft?) with Sun's Java (which now also has the Oracle name on it) -- it was like pulling teeth, but they finally agreed to update it so that they could get on a web site that uses a Java applet.

Comment Re:The perfect troll. (Score 1) 380

by lumbercartel.ca (#36955296) Attached to: Study Compares IQ With Browser Choice

Visitors arrived either through ... through advertisements on other sites, and Aptiquant made a note of which browser each test taker was using.

I've clicked on many of those I.Q. test advertisements and answered them, just for fun. I found them very easy (because the questions were ridiculously simple), so if these were the same tests then that means I effectively "voted for Opera" at least 30 times during the past 12 months. (For those who scored really low on those tests, I prefer to assume that they were just drunk or high.)

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