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by nargek 2136 days ago
OpenBSD does have Kernel Address Randomized Link (KARL) since 6.2 [1].

[1]https://www.openbsd.org/62.html

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Yes which the linked piece covers but it also says OpenBSD does both KASLR and KARL.
Yes the author is incorrect in their slides, OpenBSD has userland ASLR, it uses both PIE by default and also created static-PIE, which are self-relocating executables. There's also been a considerable effort to convert OpenBSD's already privsep daemons to the fork+exec model, most having been completed, expanding upon initial work done on sshd over 16 years ago.
Sorry, i bookmarked the link for later. I think you are right then.