A seperate forum item for security.

[mer]

They suggest the use of a memory managed language like rust or ada. It's not like they are prescriptive of the use of rust. I personally think that a disciplined usage of C is also okay. But you need to enforce that discipline, which is clearly lacking in freebsd.

Any tool needs to be used correctly, according to it's interface contracts. Use it wrong, problems happen. Using a hammer to drive a screw? Sure you can do it, but you are operating outside the interface contracts of both the hammer and the screw.

Your last sentence, I think is overly broad, but please provide supporting documentation.

 

[rcbsdpge]

If you're trying to get stuff done? Yes, absolutely.

I would say this is a fairly arrogant statement based on the fact that the Discord arm of the FreeBSD community has a dedicated security channel.

Discord was originally designed for the gaming community.

 

[msplsh]

The FreeBSD Discord is less official than this place, IIRC.

 

[rcbsdpge]

I believe that is the point we are trying to establish here

 

[msplsh]

Hunh? The less official place has more "spaces" to waste time in? Without any sarcasm: That makes sense. The CVEs feed into the forums and that's as much connection necessary for just faffing about.

 

[rcbsdpge]

Hunh? The less official place has more "spaces" to waste time in? Without any sarcasm: That makes sense. The CVEs feed into the forums and that's as much connection necessary for just faffing about.

If you are not programming in Fortran or COBOL then your counter argument is baseless. C can be a starting point.

I’m sure this will completely miss the mark and it would take you a week or longer to Google this

Obviously there are other lines for communication in the community

 

[Espionage724]

Security can be anything. Currently issues are spread over the forum ?

Security should encompass everything! (sounds pretty good )

But I'm not sure how things other than specific CVEs could be discussed under a security form, vs anywhere else. If I'm looking for specific ciphers for nginx with TLS 1.3, wouldn't that go under general "Web and Network Services"?

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Does any other OS forum have a security section to see how theirs is handled?

 

[AlfredoLlaquet]

Does any other OS forum have a security section to see how theirs is handled?

I was curious about this, and I searched a little. I've only found this: https://www.unitedbsd.com/t/security
It's not a forum about an OS, I know, and it's maybe hated around here or something, IDN, but it's the only Forum of something akin an OS with a "security" section I could find.

 

[msplsh]

Most of that seems to be configuring software that is currently handled in other sections of this forum.