Ancestors

Written by Goblin on 2024-10-02 at 16:42

Sometimes people ask me why I like #OpenBSD so much.

Over the weekend Theo de Raadt the founder of the whole project emailed me and my PhD student to say he liked our paper (and that it was 95% correct). We have never interacted with him before and the paper was published in a tiny workshop and on arXiv. He just stumbled on it.

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Toot

Written by Goblin on 2024-10-02 at 16:47

My student was terrified, but he spent the evening emailing back and forth with him discussing things, and Theo was kind enough to have a look at another of my students papers and gave comments.

He also gave a load of historical context for how pledge and unveil had been developed and where seccomp had got it wrong.

This never happens. It’s rare enough that your scientific work gets read by anyone—nevermind one of the most influential security experts working today.

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Descendants

Written by Bryan Steele :flan_beard: on 2024-10-02 at 19:03

@goblin Excellent paper! :flan_thumbs:​

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Written by Goblin on 2024-10-02 at 19:12

@brynet Thankyou! All Maysara's hard work :-D

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Written by Tariq on 2024-10-02 at 20:43

@goblin

This is SO good to see.

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