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by update 3700 days ago
> I imagine the NSA has a bag full of OpenBSD exploits [...]. But OpenBSD has gifted to the world a fighting chance--

Doesn't the former sentence negate the latter?

At this point, it seems just about all systems are hackable, given enough resources.
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quisquous 3700 days ago
Reading Bruce Schneier made me especially aware that security has a strong economic component--its not that you can make your server secure against all threats, but with the right tools you may be able to make it uneconomic for the threats you are most worried about. There's probably not much you can do to defend against an NSA-scale attacker that's targeting you individually. But if you're more concerned about NSA-style dragnets or their corporate equivalents, OpenBSD can help.
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update 3700 days ago
> There's probably not much you can do to defend against an NSA-scale attacker that's targeting you individually.

Hm. How is Phineas Fisher[1] is still on the loose then?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512845

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