FreeBSD Security Survey

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diki za upozornenie!

On 5/22/06, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:
> Doufam, ze to nikomu nebude vadit, ale repostnu sem mail, ktery dnes
> poslal Colin Percival (FreeBSD Security Officer) do konference Security
> a Stable. To pro ty, kteri tyhle konference nesleduji, ale zrovna tohle
> je celkem zajimava zalezitost.
> Ve strucnosti - jedna se o jednoduchy online dotaznik (link na konci
> textu), ktery se snazi zjistit navyky uzivatelu/administratoru FreeBSD
> co se bezpecnostnich aktualizaci jejich systemu tyce.
> Zaroven se na zaklade tohoto mailu spustila i celkem zajimava diskuze v
> obou zminenych konferencich, tak kdyby mel nekdo zajem, doporucuji
> podivat se do weboveho archivu.
>
> Miroslav Lachman
>
>
> Dear FreeBSD users and system administrators,
>
> While the FreeBSD Security Team has traditionally been very good at
> investigating and responding to security issues in FreeBSD, this only
> solves half of the security problem: Unless users and administrators
> of FreeBSD systems apply the security patches provided, the advisories
> issued accomplish little beyond alerting potential attackers to the
> presence of vulnerabilities.
>
> The Security Team has been concerned for some time by anecdotal reports
> concerning the number of FreeBSD systems which are not being promptly
> updated or are running FreeBSD releases which have passed their End of
> Life dates and are no longer supported. In order to better understand
> which FreeBSD versions are in use, how people are (or aren't) keeping
> them updated, and why it seems so many systems are not being updated, I
> have put together a short survey of 12 questions. The information gathered
> will inform the work done by the Security Team, as well as my own personal
> work on FreeBSD this summer.
>
> If you administrate system(s) running FreeBSD (in the broad sense of "are
> responsible for keeping system(s) secure and up to date"), please visit
>    http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/survey.html
> and complete the survey below before May 31st, 2006.
>
> Thanks,
> Colin Percival
> FreeBSD Security Officer
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