Sobering indeed - I guess BSD is interesting because it is the foundation of OSX. FreeBSD has had a good reputation as a server - so far. The Linux kernel is handled in Git so it will not be possible to inject anything there without others knowing. And It is now discussed for FreeBSD too - that seems sensible.
But there is no reason to feel completely invulnerable. The best way to avoid this stuff is to know your system - and I thought those FreeBSD guys did!
I think this means that Linux servers are more secure than FreeBSD. But I am sure the BSD guys will fix this. It is very interesting how long it toke before they discovered that the servers were compromised.
