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Additional context for Theo's talk at BSDCan:

FreeBSD holds a dev summit before/during BSDCan. During the tutorial days, folks higher up in FreeBSD were talking about some mistake with NDA handling and that they didn't want to be seen as embargo breakers "like OpenBSD is." To be clear, they weren't saying that OpenBSD is perceived as embargo breakers. They were saying OpenBSD *are* embargo breakers.

It's been this scurrilous rumor following OpenBSD since the Krack Attack nonsense.

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In review. Krack attack was under embargo. OpenBSD was following it. The author of the paper involved CERT late in the process, and CERT wanted to extend an already months long embargo. Author approached OpenBSD and asked to extend. OpenBSD said they weren't super comfortable with leaving their users unpatched for months more. Can OpenBSD commit patches with any reference to the weakness left out? Researcher says yes.

Cut to the release, the author now implies OpenBSD broke the embargo.

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OpenBSD didn't break the negotiated embargo. OpenBSD asked for permission to post at the end of the original embargo. OpenBSD was granted permission.

So this rumor has gone around since.

This time, OpenBSD is being left out of an embargo and it seems like it's because others are repeating this rumor as fact.

OpenBSD figured this out on their own. OpenBSD even *tried* to get in on the embargo. OpenBSD got silence.

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“I skied back to the Pole again … to take this photo for all those men who commented ‘Make me a sandwich’ on my TEDX Talk,” she wrote. “I made you a sandwich (ham & cheese), now ski 37 days and 600km to the South Pole and you can eat it xx.”

https://womenintheworld.com/2018/01/24/record-setting-polar-explorer-16-hits-back-at-men-who-said-she-belonged-in-the-kitchen/

"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs."