Security Headlines with Antoine Jacoutot

In this episode of Security Headlines, we are joined by one of the minds behind the OpenBSD project, Antoine Jacoutot. He is responsible

for porting over 300 packages into OpenBSD. He is also involved in syspatch which handles security binary upgrades for OpenBSD.

Tune in, as we talk about development, security, programming, OpenBSD and a lot more!

Topics that we cover:

OpenBSD’s community

opensource

rcctl

init systems

classic BSD

background daemons in OpenBSD

OpenBSD desktops in the wild

companies running OpenBSD

writing shellcode

openup

binary patches in OpenBSD

How OpenBSD handle security issues

how security binary patches are carried out.

syspatch

porting software to OpenBSD

Gnome on OpenBSD

OpenBSDs future with Amazon AWS

sysmerge

submitting feature requests to OpenBSD

tmux

advice for first-time OpenBSD users