One should not take him too seriously...

For example, here is a nice selection of Kurt's IRC rants.

http://www.linbsd.org/seifried.txt

As well as being a self proclaimed "security expert" who hates
Windows, yet his mail always ends up in my spam bin because of his choice
of mail clients...

From: "Kurt Seifried" <bt@seifried.org>
To: "David Litchfield" <davidl@ngssoftware.com>,
"Gadi Evron" <ge@linuxbox.org>
Cc: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>, <ntbugtraq@listserv.ntbugtraq.com>
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Subject: Re: Opinion: Complete failure of Oracle security response and
utter neglect of their responsibility to their customers
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-Ober

Richard Chesler: [Reading a piece of paper] The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club?
Narrator: [Voice-over] I'm half asleep again; I must've left the original in the copy machine.
Richard Chesler: The second rule of Fight Club - is this yours?
Narrator: Huh?
Richard Chesler: Pretend you're me, make a managerial decision: you find this, what would you do?

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Ian McWilliam wrote:

> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:49:18 +1000
> From: Ian McWilliam <ian@dodo.com.au>
> To: tech@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux -Article
>
> Ted Unangst wrote:
>> On 4/26/06, RGKdrcher <gerkarcher@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>>
>>> I want to share this article that I found
>>>
>>> http://www.seifried.org/security/os/...bsd-linux.html
>>>
>>> and the Counterpoint: Why Linux will never be as
>>> secure OpenBSD
>>>
>>> http://www.seifried.org/security/os/...x-openbsd.html
>>>
>>> What do you think about those articles ?
>>>
>>
>> i think it'd be really cool if somebody came up with a patch that
>> added non-executable stacks to openbsd.
>>
>>
>>
> Awwww come on, what about adding subDomain, I don't think systrace comes
> close.
>
> What I really don't under stand is why people take articles written by a
> nobody as gospel.
>
> http://www.seifried.org/?page_id=2
>
> "This is Kurt Seifrieds Information Security site, run by Kurt Seifried,
> CISSP.
> Self actualization practioneer and general thinker."
>
> Yeah I believe everything he writes, YEAH RIGHT!
>
> Ian McWilliam