Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Where is yours?

aortega · on March 10, 2015

Check any CTF or hacking contest (like Defcon CTF) They use FreeBSD as a playground.

QuinnWilton · on March 10, 2015

The last time I saw FreeBSD used in a CTF, it was FreeBSD 6, back in the Kenshoto days. FreeBSD has come a long way since then.

Nowadays, other than the odd ARM problem, or esoteric reversing challenge, everything is Linux. It doesn't matter anyway, though, since CTFs are designed with the express purpose of being insecure.

I'm as big a fan of OpenBSD as anyone, but there's no reason someone couldn't intentionally cripple OpenBSD to use as a platform for CTFs.

Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd · on March 11, 2015

I've only been playing CTFs for 2 years (iCTF 2013), but I don't think I've seen FreeBSD there once. In my experience, it's 99% Linux, with some occasional Windows and Android. Then there was last ruCTFe making a point of using some more obscure systems - Minix, OpenIndiana, etc.

gonzo · on March 11, 2015

The team that won the Collegiate Cyber Defense Nationals last year did so with a firewall based on freebsd (pfSense).

https://hackucf.org/blog/pfsense-at-hackucf/