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<h2>Media Coverage<hr></h2>

<h2>Media Coverage<hr></h2>

<h3>English press coverage</h3>

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Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker</a>, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.

The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover

in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.

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<a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000

OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects

in <a

href="http://www.canadacomputes.com/cc/section/pub/1,1100,33,00.html?pub=1&iss=52">The Computer Paper</a>.

Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on

the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.

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"Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000

<A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in

association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>

In the inaugural show of Info.sec.radio, Dean Turner of

Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,

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href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A

report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 1999

Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others

Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public

access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.

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A Home-Grown Operating System?

</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine, January/February, 2000

Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.

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OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is

'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999

Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things

about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,

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<li><a href="http://slashdot.org/interviews/99/11/04/1716225.shtml">UK Royal Family webmaster prefers OpenBSD</a>,

Slashdot, November 4, 1999

Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,

answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile

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<li><a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html">OpenBSD - a secure alternative</a>,

Security Portal, October 27 1999

Kurt Seifried

(<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security

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<li><a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/22/1157259&mode=thread">Interview with The Cult of the Dead Cow</a>,

Slashdot, October 22, 1999

In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers

mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.

<li><a href="http://www.lwn.net/1999/1014/security.phtml">The existence of OpenSSH-1.0 has been confirmed</a>,

Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999

Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of

<a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.

<li><a href="http://www10.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/10/biztech/articles/11code.html">Easing on Software Exports Has Limits</a>,

New York Times, October 11, 1999

Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's

restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no

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<li><a href=http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/991006/ny_ntwrk_s_2.html>NSTI announces commercial support services for OpenBSD</a>,

Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999

Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI

already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.

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<a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!

How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999

Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with

a publicly-accessible Lynx server.

<li><a href=http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/technology/stories/990930/2929913.html>Calgarian heads team ensuring OpenBSD security</a>,

Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999

Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and

security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its

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Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of

America, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999

Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small

town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview

with the

with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his

town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his terminal:

terminal:

<code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.

Escape character is '^]'.

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<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?/features/990927hack.htm">Hack this! Microsoft and its critics dispute software-security issues, but users make the final call</a>, Infoworld, Sept. 27, 1999

<li><a href="http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/28/ms.security.idg/index.html">Microsoft: Bad security, or bad press?</a>, CNN, Sept. 28, 1999

A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the

CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,

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<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg183.htm">Open source has roots in the Net</a>, USA Today, Sept. 20, 1999

Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:

"Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source

programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their

operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another

open source operating system -- is often called the most secure

operating system in the world."

operating system in the world."

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Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a>, Sept 16, 1999

Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better

than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD

and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think

all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved to the archives, free registration required.

all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved

to the archives, free registration required.

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<a href="http://www.idg.net/idg_frames/english/content.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.idg.com.au%2FCWT1997.nsf%2FHome%2Bpage%2F83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41%3FOpenDocument&return=%2fidg_frames%2fenglish%2ffeatures%2ehtml">Microsoft, Linux to become duopoly?</a>,

ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.

href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,

Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.

Lead developer Theo de Raadt was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User

Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX

Group (AUUG) meeting in Melbourne.

compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt

was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in

Melbourne.

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href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU

launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999

<a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.

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<a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining

Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999

Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and

how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the

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My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999

Sean Sosik-Hamor descibes how he built up his own Internet resource provider

(IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix

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href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based

Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,

ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999

OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,

an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.

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A Secure and Open Society</a>,

ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999

ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999

The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,

but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals

of OpenBSD.

of OpenBSD.

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1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,

COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999

COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999

"CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,

who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and

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Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,

National Post, May 25, 1999

National Post, May 25, 1999

The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for

in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.

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The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999

The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999

"The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD

code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS

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<a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,

Data Communications, June 1999

Data Communications, June 1999

"IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different

vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even

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href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A

glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999

In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX

and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first

conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it

only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still

an interesting read.

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OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your

Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999

Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair

treatment to the alternatives.

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<a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999

<a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999

Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.

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<a href="">Safe and friendly read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>,

DaemonNews, May 1999

DaemonNews, May 1999

"Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services

with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.

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Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999

Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999

Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why

Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.

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href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative

OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999

Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative

PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is

crucial to popularising an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this

site.

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NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by

<a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999

<a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999

This report compares the network monitoring performance of the

<a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at

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DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>

February, 1999

February, 1999

A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server

when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and

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Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>

February, 1999

February, 1999

"Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top

open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail

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href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The

return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999

BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the

BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with

a long list of useful links (some are stale).

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OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998

A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.

Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current

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Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998

Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998

Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the

Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.

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WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in

Server/Workstation Expert (formerly

SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81

SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81

A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use

as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box

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Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>

July, 1998

July, 1998

Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>

calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".

Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)

Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)

A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture

of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).

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Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997

Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997

Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what

OpenBSD is.

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Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998

Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998

An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event

mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a

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Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and

Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998

Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998

Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first

one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which

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<a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/bsd/index.html">BSD Magazine</a>,

Sept. 28, 1999

ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the

freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be

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OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999

Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.

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Byte Magazine, Russia,

November/December 1999 issue.

A review of OpenBSD 2.5.