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by 4ad 3699 days ago
FreeBSD lacks (or disables) most mitigations OpenBSD (and usually Windows, or some Linux distros) have, like ASLR, stack protector, W^X, PIE applications by default, libc.so symbol randomization, pledge()'d ports, etc.

I love FreeBSD, and use it a lot, and I wish these were all implemented, but until then, it pains me that FreeBSD has less mitigations enabled than Windows and good Linux distros.