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by foofyter 31 days ago
macOS is BSD roots on top of Darwin
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accrual 31 days ago
While true it doesn't answer why OpenBSD is considered more secure by default than Linux. Despite its BSD roots, macOS has had its share of CVEs:

https://www.cvedetails.com/version-list/49/70318/1/Apple-Mac...

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JdeBP 31 days ago
That's not specifically OpenBSD, though. The BSD world is not the monolith that it was back in the 1980s.
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avadodin 30 days ago
True. No relevance to macOS and iOS.

With due mention to FreeBSD's jails, BSD's security image developed mostly from OpenBSD which is said to have gained its security focus due to NetBSD being so insecure that the NetBSD folks were able to hack into DeRaadt's forked OpenBSD.

Android's Bionic was based on or heavily influenced by OpenBSD's libc iirc, though.

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