I&#x27;ve been doing FreeBSD security in particular since 1996, when I got the commit bit for discovering the crt0 environment overflow flaw, and all I can say is that this just isn&#x27;t true.<p>You don&#x27;t even have to be a security specialist to know that there&#x27;s something wrong with your argument, because you&#x27;re talking about exactly the time period where OpenBSD --- which is more secure than FreeBSD --- comically started having to change its tagline from &quot;no remote vulnerabilities in the default install&quot; to &quot;just one vulnerability in the default install&quot; to &quot;only two remote vulnerabilities in the default install for a heck of a long time&quot;.<p>Even OpenBSD concedes it wasn&#x27;t secure in 2003!