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 <h2>April, 2003</h2>  <h2>April, 2003</h2>
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   <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
   <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
   DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
   news.com.com, April 17th.
   </strong></font><br>
   (also online at
   <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
   BusinessWeek.com</a>)
   <br>
   "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
   Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
   system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
   Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
   Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
   Goes on to say:
   "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
   to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
   meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
   "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
   <p>
   <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
   <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
   DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
   SlashDot, April 17th.
   </strong></font><br>
   SlashDot report (and user folloups) on the funding canellation.
   Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
   project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
   without notice or justification.
   <p>
   
 <li><font color="#009000"><strong>  <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
   <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
   DARPA Cancellation</a>,
   MARC (Mailing list ARchives), April 17, 2003
   </strong></font><br>
   Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
   "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
   with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
   effective today, without any warning..."
   <p>
   
   <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
 <a href="http://www.robtv.com">  <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
 TV appearance</a>,  TV appearance</a>,
 CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003  CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003
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 Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,  Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
 CNET News.com, April 11, 2003  CNET News.com, April 11, 2003
 </strong></font><br>  </strong></font><br>
 The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest realease will  "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
 eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing  eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
 security experts for more than three decades."  security experts for more than three decades."
 Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.  Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
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 goverment purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed  goverment purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
 is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."  is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
 Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.  Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
   <p>
   
   <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
   <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
   DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
   </strong></font><br>
   The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
   the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
   "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
   to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
   specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
   industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
   Science at Penn.  "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
   computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
   while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
   put into service."
   <p>
   "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
   OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
   propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
   share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
   features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
   for the military and other high-security organizations.  The
   government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
   computers with security features."
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