>The platform here is:
>
>NetBSD sdf 1.5.1 NetBSD 1.5.1 (SDF) #0: Thu Aug 30 01:32:53 UTC 2001 alpha

this seems to imply to me that you're using an alpha and not an i386
machine.  odds are that you're somewhat safer because of that, since
most exploits that i've seen are i386 specific, although there are the
occasional sparc exploits.

i imagine there's at least an order of magnitude of difference between
the commonality of i386 exploits and sparc exploits, with exploits for
other architectures falling (at least) another order of magnitude
below that.

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