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1.247 jufi 33: <h3><font color="#e00000">English press coverage</font></h3><p>
1.16 louis 34:
1.253 ian 35: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
36: <ul>
1.255 ian 37:
1.260 ian 38: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 39: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
40: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 41: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 42: </strong></font><br>
43: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
44: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
45: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
46: american century.
47: <p>
48:
49: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 50: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
51: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 52: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 53: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 54: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
55: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
56: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
57: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
58: Can also be found online at:
59: <ul>
60: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
61: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
62: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 63: <p>
64:
65: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.262 beck 66: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
67: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 68: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 69: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 70: </strong></font><br>
71: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 72: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
73: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
74: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
75: <ul>
76: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
77: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 ! deraadt 78: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 79: ABC News.
80: </strong></font>
81:
82: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
83: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
84: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
85: Seattle Post Intelligencer.
86: </strong></font>
87:
88: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
89: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/17/ap/HiTech/apnews42742-03.txt">
90: [Article was pulled]</a>,
91: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
92: </strong></font>
93:
94: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
95: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 ! deraadt 96: [Article was pulled]</a>,
! 97: Lakeland Ledger
1.273 deraadt 98: </strong></font>
99:
100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
101: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 ! deraadt 102: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 103: Times Daily, AL.
104: </strong></font>
105:
106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
107: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
108: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
109: Boston.com, MA.
110: </strong></font>
111:
112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
113: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 ! deraadt 114: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 115: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
116: </strong></font>
117:
118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 119: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
120: [Article was pulled]</a>
121: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 122: </strong></font>
123:
124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
125: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
126: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
127: Infoshop News.
128: </strong></font>
129:
130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
131: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
132: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
133: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
134: </strong></font>
135:
136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
137: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
138: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
139: NEPA News, PA.
140: </strong></font>
141:
142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
143: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
144: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
145: Wired News.
146: </strong></font>
147:
1.271 deraadt 148: </ul>
149: <p>
1.272 deraadt 150: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
151: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 152: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
153: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
154: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
155: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
156: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
157: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
158: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
159: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
160: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
161: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 162: <p>
163: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 164:
165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
166: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
167: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
168: Miami Herald, FL.
169: </strong></font>
170:
171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.275 deraadt 172: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
173: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
174: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
175: </strong></font>
176:
177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
178: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 179: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 180: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 181: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 182:
183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
184: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
185: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
186: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
187: ABC News.
188: </strong></font>
189:
1.276 ! deraadt 190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 191: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
! 192: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
! 193: Rapid City Journal, SD
! 194: </strong></font>
! 195:
1.263 deraadt 196: </ul>
1.262 beck 197: <p>
198:
199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 200: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
201: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 202: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 203: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 204: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 205: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
206: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
207: <p>
208:
209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
210: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
211: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 212: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 213: </strong></font><br>
214: Another report on the DARPA funding.
215: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
216: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
217: <p>
218:
219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 220: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
221: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 222: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 223: </strong></font><br>
224: (also online at
225: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
226: BusinessWeek.com</a>)
227: <br>
228: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
229: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
230: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
231: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
232: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
233: Goes on to say:
234: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
235: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
236: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
237: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
238: <p>
239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
240: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
241: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.269 deraadt 242: SlashDot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 243: </strong></font><br>
1.265 deraadt 244: SlashDot report (and user folloups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 245: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
246: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
247: without notice or justification.
248: <p>
249:
250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
251: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
252: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 253: MARC (Mailing list ARchives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 254: </strong></font><br>
255: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
256: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
257: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
258: effective today, without any warning..."
259: <p>
1.257 ian 260:
261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 262: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
263: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 264: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 265: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 266: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
267: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
268: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
269: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
270: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 271: <p>
272:
273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 274: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
275: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 276: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 277: </strong></font><br>
278: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
279: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
280: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
281: quoting two of them:
282: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
283: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
284: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
285: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
286: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
287: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
288: <p>
289:
1.255 ian 290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 291: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
292: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 293: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 294: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 295: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 296: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
297: security experts for more than three decades."
298: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
299: <p>
1.261 ian 300:
1.254 drahn 301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 302: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
303: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 304: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 305: </strong></font><br>
306: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
307: from US DARPA.
308: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
309: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
310: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
311: the BSD license.
312: <p>
313: </ul>
314:
1.251 ian 315: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
316: <ul>
317:
318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
319: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
320: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 321: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 322: </strong></font><br>
323: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
324: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
325: Mentions
326: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
327: and
328: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
329: programs.
330: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
331: goverment purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
332: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
333: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
334: <p>
1.260 ian 335:
336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
337: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
338: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
339: </strong></font><br>
340: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
341: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
342: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
343: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
344: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
345: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
346: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
347: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
348: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
349: put into service."
350: <p>
351: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
352: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
353: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
354: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
355: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
356: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
357: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
358: computers with security features."
359: <p>
1.251 ian 360: </ul>
361:
1.249 jufi 362: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
363: <ul>
364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
365: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
366: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 367: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 368: </strong></font><br>
369: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
370: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
371: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no reponse politics.
372: <p>
373: </ul>
374:
1.246 jufi 375: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 376: <ul>
1.246 jufi 377:
1.247 jufi 378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 379: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 380: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
381: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 382: </strong></font><br>
383: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
384: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
385: <p>
386:
1.247 jufi 387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 388: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 389: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
390: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 391: </strong></font><br>
392: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
393: in their annual OpenHack security test.
394: <p>
1.247 jufi 395: </ul>
1.246 jufi 396:
1.244 jufi 397: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 398: <ul>
1.246 jufi 399:
1.247 jufi 400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 401: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
402: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
403: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 404: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 405: </strong></font><br>
406: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
407: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
408: md5 digests.
409: <p>
410:
1.247 jufi 411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 412: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 413: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
414: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 415: </strong></font><br>
416: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
417: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
418: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
419: right the first time."
420: <p>
1.247 jufi 421: </ul>
1.244 jufi 422:
423:
424: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 425: <ul>
1.244 jufi 426:
1.247 jufi 427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 428: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 429: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
430: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 431: </strong></font><br>
432: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
433: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
434: part 6</a>.
435: <p>
436:
1.247 jufi 437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 438: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 439: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
440: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 441: </strong></font><br>
442: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
443: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
444: <p>
1.247 jufi 445: </ul>
1.242 jufi 446:
447: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 448: <ul>
1.242 jufi 449:
1.247 jufi 450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 451: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 452: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
453: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 454: </strong></font><br>
455: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
456: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
457: <p>
458:
1.247 jufi 459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 460: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 461: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
462: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 463: </strong></font><br>
464: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
465: this time using pf.
466: <p>
1.247 jufi 467: </ul>
1.242 jufi 468:
469: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 470: <ul>
1.242 jufi 471:
1.247 jufi 472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 473: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 474: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
475: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 476: </strong></font><br>
477: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
478: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
479: their rotation.
480: <p>
481:
1.247 jufi 482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 483: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 484: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
485: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 486: </strong></font><br>
487: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
488: <p>
1.247 jufi 489: </ul>
1.242 jufi 490:
1.239 jufi 491: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 492: <ul>
1.239 jufi 493:
1.247 jufi 494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 495: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 496: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
497: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 498: </strong></font><br>
499: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
500: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
501: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
502: <p>
503:
1.247 jufi 504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 505: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 506: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
507: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 508: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 509: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
510: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
511: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 512: <p>
1.247 jufi 513: </ul>
1.239 jufi 514:
1.235 lebel 515: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 516: <ul>
1.235 lebel 517:
1.239 jufi 518:
1.247 jufi 519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 520: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 521: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
522: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 523: </strong></font><br>
524: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
525: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
526: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
527: <p>
1.247 jufi 528: </ul>
1.235 lebel 529:
1.228 horacio 530: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 531: <ul>
1.228 horacio 532:
1.247 jufi 533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 534: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 535: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
536: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 537: </strong></font><br>
538: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
539: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
540: <p>
541:
1.247 jufi 542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 543: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 544: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
545: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 546: </strong></font><br>
547: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
548: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
549: <p>
550:
1.247 jufi 551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 552: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 553: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
554: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 555: </strong></font><br>
556: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
557: on the desktop of his parents.
558: <p>
559:
1.247 jufi 560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 561: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 562: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
563: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 564: </strong></font><br>
565: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
566: using IPFilter.
567:
568: <p>
569:
1.247 jufi 570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 571: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 572: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
573: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 574: </strong></font><br>
575: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
576: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
577: perspectives of the four OS.
578: <br>
579: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 580: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 581: <p>
582:
1.247 jufi 583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 584: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
585: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 586: software and security</a>,
587: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 588: </strong></font><br>
589:
590: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
591: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
592: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
593: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
594: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
595: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
596: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
597: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
598: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
599: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
600: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
601: security conscious team beyond doubt.
602: <p>
1.247 jufi 603: </ul>
1.228 horacio 604:
1.225 horacio 605: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 606: <ul>
1.225 horacio 607:
1.247 jufi 608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 609: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
610: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 611: Interview</a>,
612: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 613: </strong></font><br>
614:
615: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
616: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
617: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 618: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 619: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
620: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
621: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
622: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
623: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 624: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 625: of choice.
626: <p>
1.247 jufi 627: </ul>
1.225 horacio 628:
629: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 630: <ul>
1.225 horacio 631:
1.247 jufi 632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 633: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 634: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
635: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 636: </strong></font><br>
637:
638: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
639: <p>
640:
1.247 jufi 641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 642: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 643: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
644: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 645: </strong></font><br>
646:
647: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
648: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
649: <p>
1.247 jufi 650: </ul>
1.225 horacio 651:
1.218 horacio 652: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 653: <ul>
1.218 horacio 654:
1.247 jufi 655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 656: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 657: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
658: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 659: </strong></font><br>
660:
661: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
662: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
663: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
664: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
665: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
666: subjects. Worth a read.
667: <p>
668:
669:
1.247 jufi 670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 671: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 672: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
673: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 674: </strong></font><br>
675:
676: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
677: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
678: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
679: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
680: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
681: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
682: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
683: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
684: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 685: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 686: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
687: on other operating systems.<br>
688: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
689: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
690: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
691: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
692: <p>
693:
1.247 jufi 694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 695: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 696: Operating System 2010</a>,
697: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 698: </strong></font><br>
699:
700: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
701: covering the level of software integration into the core
702: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
703: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
704: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
705: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
706: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
707: <p>
708:
1.247 jufi 709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 710: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 711: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
712: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 713: </strong></font><br>
714:
715: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
716: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
717: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
718: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
719: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
720: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
721: <p>
1.247 jufi 722: </ul>
1.221 horacio 723:
1.210 jufi 724: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 725: <ul>
1.215 horacio 726:
1.247 jufi 727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 728: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 729: Already a Contender</a>,
730: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 731: </strong></font><br>
732:
733: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
734: source software in response to an article which claimed that
735: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
736: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
737: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
738: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
739: <p>
740:
1.247 jufi 741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 742: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 743: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
744: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 745: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 746:
1.224 horacio 747: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
748: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
749: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
750: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
751: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
752: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 753: <p>
1.247 jufi 754: </ul>
1.215 horacio 755:
756: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 757: <ul>
1.215 horacio 758:
1.247 jufi 759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 760: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
761: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 762: Division</a>,
763: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 764: </strong></font><br>
765:
766: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
767: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 768: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 769: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
770: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
771: investment</em>.<br>
772: The implementation details can be seen on their
773: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
774: <p>
775:
1.247 jufi 776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 777: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 778: Thinking about Security</a>,
779: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 780: </strong></font><br>
781:
782: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
783: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
784: security and says that even secured operating systems running
785: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
786: to time.<br>
787: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
788: system and just the most secure system.
789: <p>
790:
1.247 jufi 791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 792: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 793: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
794: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 795: </strong></font><br>
796:
797: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
798: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
799: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
800: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
801: choice:<br>
802: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
803: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
804: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
805: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
806: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
807: network security devices and as such must be well
808: armored."</em><br>
809: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
810: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
811: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
812: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
813: <br>
814: Bravo!
815: <p>
1.247 jufi 816: </ul>
1.210 jufi 817:
1.207 ian 818: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 819: <ul>
1.215 horacio 820:
1.247 jufi 821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 822: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
823: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
824: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 825:
1.207 ian 826: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
827: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 828: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 829: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
830: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
831: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 832: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 833: <p>
1.247 jufi 834: </ul>
1.207 ian 835:
1.194 jufi 836: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 837: <ul>
1.194 jufi 838:
1.247 jufi 839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 840: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 841: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
842: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 843: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 844:
1.240 miod 845: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 846: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
847: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
848: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
849: <p>
850:
1.247 jufi 851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 852: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 853: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
854: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
855: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 856:
1.240 miod 857: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 858: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 859: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
860: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
861: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 862: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 863: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
864: <br>
865: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
866: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
867: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
868: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
869: <p>
870:
1.247 jufi 871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 872: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
873: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 874: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 875: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 876:
1.194 jufi 877: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
878: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
879: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
880: <br>
881: The new
882: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 883: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 884: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
885: <p>
1.247 jufi 886: </ul>
1.194 jufi 887:
1.190 horacio 888: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 889: <ul>
1.190 horacio 890:
1.247 jufi 891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 892:
893: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
894: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
895:
896: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
897: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
898:
899: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
900: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
901:
1.212 horacio 902: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
903: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 904: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
905:
1.211 horacio 906: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
907: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 908: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
909:
1.247 jufi 910: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 911: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
912:
1.247 jufi 913: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 914: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
915:
1.212 horacio 916: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
917: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 918: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
919:
920: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
921: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
922:
923: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
924: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
925:
926: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
927: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
928:
929: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 930: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 931:
1.192 jufi 932: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
933: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 934: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 935:
1.193 deraadt 936: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
937: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 938: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 939:
1.247 jufi 940: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 941: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
942:
1.247 jufi 943: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 944: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
945: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
946:
1.213 horacio 947: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 948: OpenBSD gets brand-new packet filter</a> <em>(Slashdot echoes OpenBSD <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a> development.)</em>,
1.213 horacio 949: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
950:
1.190 horacio 951: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 952: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
953: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
954: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
955: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
956: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
957: <p>
1.190 horacio 958:
1.247 jufi 959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 960: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
961: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
962: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 963: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 964:
1.195 jufi 965: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 966: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
967: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
968: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 969: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
970: <p>
971:
1.247 jufi 972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 973: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 974: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
975: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
976: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 977:
1.191 jufi 978: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
979: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
980: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
981: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 982: <p>
1.247 jufi 983: </ul>
1.190 horacio 984:
1.191 jufi 985:
1.186 jufi 986: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 987: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 988:
1.247 jufi 989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 990: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 991: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
992: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 993: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 994:
1.188 jufi 995: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 996: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 997: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 998: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
999: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1000: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1001: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1002: <p>
1003:
1.191 jufi 1004:
1.247 jufi 1005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1006: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1007: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1008: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1009: </strong></font><br>
1010:
1011: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1012: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1013: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1014: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1015: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1016: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1017: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1018: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1019: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1020: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1021: familiar?
1022: <p>
1.247 jufi 1023: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1024:
1.178 louis 1025: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1026: <ul>
1.178 louis 1027:
1.247 jufi 1028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1029: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1030: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1031: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1032: </strong></font><br>
1033:
1034: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1035: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1036: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1037: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1038: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1039: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1040: <p>
1041:
1.247 jufi 1042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1043: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1044: Open source under the hood</a>,
1045: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1046: </strong></font><br>
1047:
1048: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1049: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1050: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1051: <p>
1052:
1.247 jufi 1053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1054: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1055: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1056: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1057: </strong></font><br>
1058:
1059: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1060: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1061: <p>
1.247 jufi 1062: </ul>
1.179 louis 1063:
1.174 louis 1064:
1.175 louis 1065: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1066: <ul>
1.175 louis 1067:
1.247 jufi 1068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1069: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1070: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1071: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1072: </strong></font><br>
1073:
1074: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1075: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1076: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1077: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1078: <p>
1079:
1.247 jufi 1080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1081: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1082: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1083: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1084: </strong></font><br>
1085:
1086: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1087: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1088: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1089: <p>
1.247 jufi 1090: </ul>
1.175 louis 1091:
1.176 louis 1092:
1.172 mickey 1093: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1094: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1095:
1.247 jufi 1096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1097: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1098: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1099: </strong></font><br>
1100:
1101: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1102: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1103: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1104: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1105: <p>
1106:
1.247 jufi 1107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1108: <a
1.269 deraadt 1109: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1110: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1111: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1112: </strong></font><br>
1113:
1114: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1115: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1116: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1117: <p>
1118:
1.247 jufi 1119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1120: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1121: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1122: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1123: </strong></font><br>
1124:
1125: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1126: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1127: <p>
1128:
1.247 jufi 1129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1130: <a
1.269 deraadt 1131: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1132: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1133: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1134: </strong></font><br>
1135:
1136: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1137: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1138: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1139: our own Theo de Raadt.
1140: <p>
1141:
1.247 jufi 1142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1143: <a
1.269 deraadt 1144: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1145: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1146: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1147: </strong></font><br>
1148:
1149: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1150: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1151: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1152: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1153: shut down.]
1154: <p>
1155:
1.247 jufi 1156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1157: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1158: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1159: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1160: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1161: </strong></font><br>
1162:
1163: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1164: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1165: <p>
1.247 jufi 1166: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1167:
1.161 louis 1168: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1169: <ul>
1.161 louis 1170:
1.247 jufi 1171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1172: <a
1.269 deraadt 1173: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1174: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1175: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1176: </strong></font><br>
1177:
1178: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1179: by John Wolley
1180: <p>
1181:
1.247 jufi 1182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1183: <a
1.269 deraadt 1184: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1185: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1186: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1187: </strong></font><br>
1188:
1189: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1190: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1191: OpenBSD).
1192: <p>
1193:
1.247 jufi 1194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1195: <a
1.247 jufi 1196: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1197: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1198: </strong></font><br>
1199:
1200: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1201: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1202: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1203: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1204: and hindsight.
1205: <p>
1206:
1.247 jufi 1207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1208: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1209: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1210: </strong></font><br>
1211:
1212: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1213: <p>
1214:
1.247 jufi 1215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1216: <a
1.168 provos 1217: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1218: December 7, 2000
1219: </strong></font><br>
1220:
1221: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1222: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1223: us explain.
1224: <p>
1225:
1.247 jufi 1226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1227: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1228: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1229: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1230: December 6, 2000
1231: </strong></font><br>
1232:
1233: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1234: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1235: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1236: <p>
1237:
1.247 jufi 1238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1239: <a
1.226 horacio 1240: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1241: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1242: </strong></font><br>
1243:
1244: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1245: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1246: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1247: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1248: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1249: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1250: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1251: <p>
1.162 millert 1252:
1.247 jufi 1253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1254: <a
1.161 louis 1255: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1256: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1257: </strong></font><br>
1258:
1259: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1260: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1261: <p>
1262:
1.247 jufi 1263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1264: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1265: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1266: </strong></font><br>
1267:
1268: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1269: <p>
1270:
1271:
1.247 jufi 1272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1273: <a
1.226 horacio 1274: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1275: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1276: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1277: </strong></font><br>
1278:
1279: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1280: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1281: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1282: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1283: <p>
1.247 jufi 1284: </ul>
1.169 louis 1285:
1.158 louis 1286: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1287: <ul>
1.147 louis 1288:
1.247 jufi 1289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1290: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1291: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1292: </strong></font><br>
1293:
1294: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1295: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1296: <p>
1297:
1.247 jufi 1298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1299: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1300: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1301: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1302: </strong></font><br>
1303: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1304: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1305: <p>
1306:
1.247 jufi 1307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1308: <a
1309: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1310: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1311: </strong></font><br>
1312:
1313: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1314: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1315: <p>
1316:
1.247 jufi 1317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1318: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1319: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1320: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1321:
1.213 horacio 1322: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 1323: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1324: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1325: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1326: <p>
1.215 horacio 1327:
1.247 jufi 1328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1329: <a
1330: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1331: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1332: </strong></font><br>
1333:
1334: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1335: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1336: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1337: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1338: much of the attitude too).
1339: <p>
1.161 louis 1340:
1.247 jufi 1341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1342: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1343: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1344: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1345:
1.157 louis 1346: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
1347: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
1348: <p>
1.247 jufi 1349: </ul>
1.157 louis 1350:
1351: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1352: <ul>
1.157 louis 1353:
1.247 jufi 1354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1355: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1356: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 1357: </strong></font><br>
1358:
1359: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
1360: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
1361: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
1362: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
1363: <p>
1364:
1.247 jufi 1365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 1366: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
1367: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
1368: </strong></font><br>
1369:
1370: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
1371: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
1372: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
1373: it because they love coding...
1374: <p>
1375:
1.247 jufi 1376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 1377: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
1378: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
1379: </strong></font><br>
1380:
1381: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
1382: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
1383: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
1384: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
1385: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
1386: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
1387: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
1388: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
1389: <p>
1390:
1.247 jufi 1391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1392: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
1393: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
1394: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 1395: </strong></font><br>
1396:
1397: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
1398: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
1399: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
1400: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
1401: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
1402: the pizza.
1403: <p>
1404:
1.247 jufi 1405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 1406: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
1407: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
1408: </strong></font><br>
1409:
1410: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
1411: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
1412: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
1413: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
1414: problems.
1415: <p>
1416:
1.247 jufi 1417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 1418: <a href="http://napalm.osuny.co.uk/txt/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
1.154 louis 1419: </strong></font><br>
1420:
1.222 miod 1421: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 1422: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
1423: - whether they like it or not.
1424: <p>
1425:
1.247 jufi 1426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1427: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
1428: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 1429: </strong></font><br>
1430:
1431: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
1432: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
1433: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 1434: <p>
1.148 aaron 1435:
1.247 jufi 1436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1437: <a href="http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20001003S0001/1">The Pros and Cons of Posting Vulnerabilities</a>, Network Magazine, October 5, 2000
1.156 louis 1438: </strong></font><br>
1439:
1440: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
1441: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
1442: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
1443: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
1444: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
1445: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
1446: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
1447: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
1448: <p>
1449:
1.247 jufi 1450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1451: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
1452: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 1453: </strong></font><br>
1454:
1455: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
1456: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1457: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
1458: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
1459: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
1460: <p>
1.247 jufi 1461: </ul>
1.147 louis 1462:
1.138 louis 1463: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1464: <ul>
1.138 louis 1465:
1.247 jufi 1466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1467: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1468: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
1469: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
1470: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 1471: </strong></font><br>
1472:
1.227 horacio 1473: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 1474: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
1475: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
1476: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
1477: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
1478: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
1479: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
1480: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 1481: <p>
1482:
1.247 jufi 1483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 1484: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 1485: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 1486: </strong></font><br>
1487:
1488: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
1489: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
1490: groups, and even Linux.
1491: <p>
1492:
1.247 jufi 1493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1494: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
1495: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 1496: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
1497: </strong></font><br>
1498:
1499: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
1500: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
1501: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
1502: library after installing the OS.
1503: <p>
1504:
1.247 jufi 1505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1506: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 1507: Sys Admin, September 2000
1508: </strong></font><br>
1509:
1510: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
1511: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
1512: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
1513: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 1514: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vpn&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">vpn(8)</a>,
1515: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
1516: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
1517: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">isakmpd(8)</a>) and the OpenBSD
1.189 horacio 1518: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 1519: out of the system.
1520: <p>
1521:
1.247 jufi 1522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 1523: <a href="http://www.osOpinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD, OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, September 2000
1524: </strong></font><br>
1525:
1526: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 1527: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1528: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
1529: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
1530: the IP filtering and address translation.
1531: <p>
1.247 jufi 1532: </ul>
1.200 niklas 1533:
1.131 louis 1534: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1535: <ul>
1.131 louis 1536:
1.247 jufi 1537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1538: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
1539: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
1540: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 1541: </strong></font><br>
1542:
1543: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
1544: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
1545: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
1546: <p>
1547:
1.247 jufi 1548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 1549: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
1550: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
1551: </strong></font><br>
1552:
1553: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
1554: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
1555: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
1556: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
1557: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
1558: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
1559: note of"</i>.
1560: <p>
1561:
1.247 jufi 1562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 1563: <a
1.247 jufi 1564: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 1565: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
1566: </strong></font><br>
1567:
1568: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
1569: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
1570: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
1571: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
1572: <p>
1573:
1.247 jufi 1574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 1575: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 1576: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
1577: </strong></font><br>
1578:
1579: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
1580: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
1581: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
1582: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
1583: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
1584: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
1585: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
1586: <p>
1587:
1.247 jufi 1588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 1589: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
1590: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
1591: 2000
1592: </strong></font><br>
1593:
1594: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
1595: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
1596: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
1597: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
1598: against current industry practices.
1599: <p>
1600:
1.247 jufi 1601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 1602: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/08/OpenBSD.html">An Overview of OpenBSD Security</a>, OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2000
1603: </strong></font><br>
1604:
1605: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1606: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1607: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1608: <p>
1609:
1.247 jufi 1610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 1611: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1612: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1613: </strong></font><br>
1614:
1615: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1616: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1617: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1618: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1619: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1620: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1621: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1622: <p>
1623:
1.247 jufi 1624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 1625: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1626: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1627: </strong></font><br>
1628:
1629: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1630: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1631: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1632: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1633: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1634: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1635: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1636: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1637: <p>
1.247 jufi 1638: </ul>
1.131 louis 1639:
1.118 louis 1640: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1641: <ul>
1.118 louis 1642:
1.247 jufi 1643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1644: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1645: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1646: </strong></font><br>
1647:
1648: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
1649: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
1650: about time. The article mentions that
1651: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
1652: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
1653: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 1654: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 1655: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
1656: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 1657: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 1658: <p>
1659:
1.247 jufi 1660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1661: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 1662: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1663: </strong></font><br>
1664:
1665: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
1666: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
1667: of OpenSSH.
1668: <p>
1669:
1.247 jufi 1670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1671: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1672: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1673: </strong></font><br>
1674:
1675: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 1676: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 1677: bridging.
1678: <p>
1679:
1.247 jufi 1680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1681: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
1682: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 1683: </strong></font><br>
1684:
1.121 deraadt 1685: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
1686: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 1687: <p>
1688:
1.247 jufi 1689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1690: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
1691: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
1692: </strong></font><br>
1693:
1694: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
1695: <p>
1696:
1.247 jufi 1697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 1698: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1699: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1700: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 1701: </strong></font><br>
1702:
1.120 deraadt 1703: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
1704: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 1705: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
1706: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
1707: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
1708: <p>
1709:
1.247 jufi 1710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 1711: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
1712: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
1713: </strong></font><br>
1714:
1.222 miod 1715: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 1716: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
1717: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
1718: protocols and their quirks.
1719: <p>
1720:
1.247 jufi 1721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1722: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
1723: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 1724: </strong></font><br>
1725:
1726: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
1727: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
1728: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 1729: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 1730: <p>
1731:
1.247 jufi 1732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 1733: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
1734: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
1735: </strong></font><br>
1736:
1737: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
1738: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
1739: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
1740: <p>
1741:
1.247 jufi 1742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 1743: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1744: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
1745: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 1746: </strong></font><br>
1747:
1748: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
1749: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
1750: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
1751: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
1752: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
1753: <p>
1.247 jufi 1754: </ul>
1.118 louis 1755:
1.104 louis 1756: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1757: <ul>
1.104 louis 1758:
1.247 jufi 1759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 1760: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1761: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
1762: </strong></font><br>
1763:
1764: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
1765: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
1766: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
1767: be a bit dry.
1768: <p>
1769:
1.247 jufi 1770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1771: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
1772: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
1773: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
1774: </strong></font><br>
1775: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
1776: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
1777: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
1778: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
1779: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
1780: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
1781: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
1782: <p>
1783:
1.247 jufi 1784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1785: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
1786: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 1787: 2000
1.128 louis 1788: </strong></font><br>
1789:
1790: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
1791: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
1792: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
1793: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
1794: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 1795: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 1796: <p>
1797:
1.247 jufi 1798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1799: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
1800: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 1801: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 1802:
1803: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
1804: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
1805: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
1806: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 1807: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1808: <p>
1.110 louis 1809:
1.247 jufi 1810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 1811: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
1812: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
1813: </strong></font><br>
1814:
1815: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
1816: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
1817: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
1818: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
1819: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
1820: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
1821: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
1822: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
1823: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
1824: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
1825: <p>
1826:
1.247 jufi 1827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 1828: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1829: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1830:
1831: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1832: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1833: <p>
1.108 louis 1834:
1.247 jufi 1835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 1836: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1837: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1838: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1839:
1840: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1841: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1842: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1843: <p>
1.106 louis 1844:
1.247 jufi 1845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 1846: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1847: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1848: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1849:
1850: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1851: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1852: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1853: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1854: <p>
1.107 louis 1855:
1.247 jufi 1856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1857: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
1858: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1859: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1860:
1861: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1862: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1863: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1864: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1865: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1866: <p>
1.105 louis 1867:
1.247 jufi 1868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 1869: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1870: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1871: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1872:
1.113 naddy 1873: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1874: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1875: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1876: <p>
1.104 louis 1877:
1.247 jufi 1878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1879: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1880: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1881: </strong></font><br>
1882:
1883: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1884: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1885: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1886: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1887: <p>
1.247 jufi 1888: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 1889:
1.85 louis 1890: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1891: <ul>
1.85 louis 1892:
1.247 jufi 1893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1894: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1895: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1896: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1897:
1898: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1899: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1900: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1901: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1902: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1903: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1904: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1905: <p>
1.99 louis 1906:
1.247 jufi 1907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1908: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1909: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1910: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1911:
1912: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1913: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1914: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1915: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1916: <p>
1.100 louis 1917:
1.247 jufi 1918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1919: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1920: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1921: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1922:
1923: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1924: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1925: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1926: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1927: <p>
1.95 louis 1928:
1.247 jufi 1929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1930: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1931: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1932: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1933:
1934: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1935: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1936: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1937: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1938: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1939: <p>
1.92 louis 1940:
1.247 jufi 1941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1942: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1943: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1944: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1945:
1946: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1947: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1948: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1949: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1950: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1951: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1952: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1953: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1954: <p>
1.91 louis 1955:
1.247 jufi 1956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1957: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1958: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1959: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1960:
1961: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1962: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1963: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1964: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1965: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1966: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1967: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1968: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1969: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1970: <p>
1.90 louis 1971:
1.247 jufi 1972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1973: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1974: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1975: </strong></font><br>
1976: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1977: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1978: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1979: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1980: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1981: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1982: <p>
1983:
1.247 jufi 1984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 1985: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1986: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1987: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1988:
1.113 naddy 1989: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1990: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1991: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1992: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1993: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1994: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1995: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1996: <p>
1.87 louis 1997:
1.247 jufi 1998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 1999: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2000: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2001: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2002:
2003: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2004: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2005: <p>
1.85 louis 2006:
1.247 jufi 2007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2008: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2009: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2010: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2011:
2012: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2013: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2014: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2015: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2016: <p>
1.89 louis 2017:
1.247 jufi 2018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2019: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2020: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2021: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2022:
2023: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2024: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2025: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2026: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2027: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2028: </ul>
1.85 louis 2029:
1.78 deraadt 2030: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2031: <ul>
1.74 louis 2032:
1.247 jufi 2033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2034: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2035: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2036: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2037: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2038:
2039: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2040: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2041: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2042: <p>
1.83 louis 2043:
1.247 jufi 2044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2045: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2046: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2047: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2048:
2049: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2050: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2051: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2052: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2053: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2054: <p>
1.93 louis 2055:
1.247 jufi 2056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2057: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2058: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2059: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2060: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2061:
1.83 louis 2062: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2063: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2064: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2065: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2066: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2067: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2068: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2069: <p>
1.82 aaron 2070:
1.247 jufi 2071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2072: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2073: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2074: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2075:
1.83 louis 2076: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2077: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2078: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2079: <p>
1.80 louis 2080:
1.247 jufi 2081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2082: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2083: Bad Press</a>,
2084: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2085: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2086:
2087: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2088: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2089: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2090: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2091: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2092: <p>
1.247 jufi 2093: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2094:
2095: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2096: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2097:
1.247 jufi 2098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2099: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2100: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2101: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2102: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2103:
2104: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2105: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2106: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2107: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2108: <p>
1.74 louis 2109:
1.247 jufi 2110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2111: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2112: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2113: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2114:
1.219 horacio 2115: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2116: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2117: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2118: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2119: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2120: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2121: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2122: <p>
1.88 louis 2123:
1.247 jufi 2124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2125: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2126: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2127: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2128:
2129: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2130: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2131: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2132: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2133: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2134: <p>
1.81 louis 2135:
1.247 jufi 2136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2137: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2138: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2139: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2140:
2141: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2142: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2143: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2144: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2145: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2146: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2147: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2148: <p>
1.90 louis 2149:
1.247 jufi 2150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2151: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2152: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2153: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2154:
2155: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2156: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2157: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2158: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2159: <p>
1.247 jufi 2160: </ul>
1.71 louis 2161:
1.69 deraadt 2162: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2163: <ul>
1.70 louis 2164:
1.247 jufi 2165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2166: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2167: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2168: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2169:
2170: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2171: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2172: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2173: <p>
1.70 louis 2174:
1.247 jufi 2175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2176: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2177: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2178: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2179:
2180: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2181: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2182: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2183: <p>
1.68 louis 2184:
1.247 jufi 2185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2186: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2187: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2188: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2189: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2190:
1.111 jufi 2191: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2192: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2193: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2194: "secure by default" installation.
2195: <p>
1.64 louis 2196:
1.247 jufi 2197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2198: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2199: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2200: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2201:
1.113 naddy 2202: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2203: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2204: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2205: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2206: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2207: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2208: <p>
1.66 louis 2209:
1.247 jufi 2210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2211: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2212: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2213: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2214:
2215: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2216: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2217: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2218: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2219: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2220: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2221: <p>
1.83 louis 2222:
1.247 jufi 2223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2224: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2225: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2226: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2227:
2228: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2229: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2230: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2231: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2232: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2233: <p>
1.64 louis 2234:
1.247 jufi 2235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2236: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2237: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2238: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2239:
2240: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2241: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2242: <p>
1.247 jufi 2243: </ul>
1.65 louis 2244:
1.69 deraadt 2245: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2246: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2247:
1.247 jufi 2248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2249: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2250: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2251: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2252:
2253: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2254: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2255: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2256: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2257: <p>
1.88 louis 2258:
1.247 jufi 2259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2260: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/linux/news/0,6423,2426206,00.html">Opening up, government style</a>, ZDNet, January 24, 2000
1.113 naddy 2261: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2262:
2263: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2264: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2265: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2266: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2267: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2268: <p>
1.60 louis 2269:
1.247 jufi 2270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2271: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2272: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2273: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2274: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2275:
2276: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
2277: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
2278: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2279: <p>
1.58 louis 2280:
1.247 jufi 2281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 2282: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 2283: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2284:
2285: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
2286: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 2287: <p>
1.53 louis 2288:
1.247 jufi 2289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 2290: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
2291: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2292: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2293:
2294: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
2295: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
2296: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 2297: <p>
1.99 louis 2298:
1.247 jufi 2299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 2300: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 2301: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2302:
2303: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
2304: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 2305: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 2306: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 2307: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 2308:
1.247 jufi 2309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2310: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
2311: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 2312: </strong></font><br>
2313:
2314: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
2315: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
2316: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
2317: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
2318: <p>
2319:
1.247 jufi 2320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2321: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 2322: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2323: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2324:
2325: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
2326: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 2327: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 2328:
1.247 jufi 2329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 2330: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2331: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2332:
2333: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 2334: in
1.247 jufi 2335: <a href="http://www.canadacomputes.com/cc/section/pub/1,1100,33,00.html?pub=1&iss=52">The Computer Paper</a>.
1.53 louis 2336: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 2337: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 2338: <p>
1.53 louis 2339:
1.247 jufi 2340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2341: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 2342: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
2343: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 2344: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 2345:
1.58 louis 2346: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2347: <p>
1.247 jufi 2348: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 2349:
1.69 deraadt 2350: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2351: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2352:
1.247 jufi 2353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2354: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
2355: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
2356: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 2357: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2358:
1.58 louis 2359: Kurt Seifried
2360: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2361: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
2362: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 2363: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 2364:
1.247 jufi 2365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2366: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 2367: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2368: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 2369:
2370: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2371: <p>
1.96 louis 2372:
1.247 jufi 2373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2374: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 2375: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 2376: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 2377:
2378: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
2379: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
2380: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
2381: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 2382: <p>
1.247 jufi 2383: </ul>
1.86 louis 2384:
1.69 deraadt 2385: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2386: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2387:
1.247 jufi 2388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2389: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
2390: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 2391: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2392:
2393: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
2394: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 2395: <p>
1.61 louis 2396:
1.247 jufi 2397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2398: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 2399: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
2400: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2401: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 2402:
2403: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 2404: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 2405: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
2406: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 2407: right -- or at least strives to".
2408: <p>
1.48 louis 2409:
1.247 jufi 2410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2411: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
2412: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2413: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2414: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
2415: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
2416: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
2417: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 2418: <p>
1.61 louis 2419:
1.247 jufi 2420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://slashdot.org/interviews/99/11/04/1716225.shtml">UK Royal Family webmaster prefers OpenBSD</a>,
1.48 louis 2421: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2422: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 2423:
2424: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
2425: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
2426: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
2427: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 2428: <p>
1.46 louis 2429:
1.247 jufi 2430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2431: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
2432: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2433: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2434:
2435: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
2436: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 2437: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 2438:
1.247 jufi 2439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 2440: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
2441: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 2442: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2443:
2444: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
2445: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
2446: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
2447: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 2448: <p>
1.247 jufi 2449: </ul>
1.70 louis 2450:
1.69 deraadt 2451: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2452: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2453:
1.247 jufi 2454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2455: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
2456: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 2457: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 2458: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 2459:
2460: Kurt Seifried
2461: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2462: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
2463: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 2464: <p>
1.44 philen 2465:
1.247 jufi 2466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/22/1157259&mode=thread">Interview with The Cult of the Dead Cow</a>,
1.41 louis 2467: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 2468: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 2469:
2470: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 2471: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 2472:
1.247 jufi 2473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.lwn.net/1999/1014/security.phtml">The existence of OpenSSH-1.0 has been confirmed</a>,
1.37 louis 2474: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 2475: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 2476:
2477: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 2478: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 2479:
1.247 jufi 2480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www10.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/10/biztech/articles/11code.html">Easing on Software Exports Has Limits</a>,
1.36 louis 2481: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 2482: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 2483:
2484: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
2485: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
2486: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
2487: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 2488: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 2489:
1.247 jufi 2490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.netsec.net/press_100699.html">NSTI announces commercial support services for OpenBSD</a>,
1.34 beck 2491: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 2492: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 2493:
1.36 louis 2494: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 2495: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 2496:
1.247 jufi 2497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2498: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
2499: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 2500: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2501:
2502: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 2503: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 2504: </ul>
1.38 louis 2505:
1.69 deraadt 2506: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2507: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2508:
1.247 jufi 2509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/technology/stories/990930/2929913.html">Calgarian heads team ensuring OpenBSD security</a>,
1.38 louis 2510: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 2511: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 2512:
2513: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
2514: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 2515: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 2516:
1.113 naddy 2517: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 2518: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 2519: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 2520: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 2521:
2522: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
2523: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 2524: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
2525: terminal:
1.113 naddy 2526: <blockquote>
2527: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
2528: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
2529: <br>
2530: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
2531: </code>
2532: </blockquote>
2533: <p>
2534:
1.247 jufi 2535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2536: <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</strong></font><br>
2537: <p>
2538:
2539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2540: <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
1.113 naddy 2541: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 2542:
2543: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
2544: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 2545: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 2546: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 2547:
1.247 jufi 2548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 2549: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg183.htm">Open source has roots in the Net</a>, USA Today, Sept. 20, 1999
1.113 naddy 2550: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 2551:
2552: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
2553: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
2554: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
2555: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
2556: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 2557: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 2558: <p>
1.19 louis 2559:
1.113 naddy 2560: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 2561: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 2562: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 2563:
2564: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
2565: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
2566: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 2567: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
2568: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 2569: <p>
1.16 louis 2570:
1.247 jufi 2571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2572: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 2573: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 2574: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 2575:
1.57 louis 2576: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
2577: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
2578: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 2579: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 2580:
1.247 jufi 2581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2582: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 2583: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 2584: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2585:
1.113 naddy 2586: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 2587:
1.247 jufi 2588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2589: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
2590: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2591: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 2592:
1.23 louis 2593: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
2594: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
2595: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
2596: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
2597: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 2598: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 2599:
1.247 jufi 2600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 2601: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
2602: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2603: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 2604:
1.199 pvalchev 2605: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 2606: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
2607: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
2608: installation.
1.113 naddy 2609: <p>
1.47 louis 2610:
1.247 jufi 2611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2612: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 2613: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 2614: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2615:
2616: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 2617: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2618: </ul>
1.57 louis 2619:
1.69 deraadt 2620: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2621: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2622:
1.247 jufi 2623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 2624: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 2625: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 2626: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 2627:
2628: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
2629: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 2630: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2631: <p>
1.12 louis 2632:
1.247 jufi 2633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 2634: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 2635: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 2636: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 2637:
2638: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
2639: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 2640: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
2641: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
2642: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
2643: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
2644: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 2645: <p>
1.247 jufi 2646: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 2647:
1.69 deraadt 2648: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2649: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 2650:
1.247 jufi 2651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 2652: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 2653: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 2654:
2655: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
2656: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
2657: available."
1.113 naddy 2658: <p>
1.247 jufi 2659: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 2660:
1.69 deraadt 2661: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2662: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2663:
1.247 jufi 2664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 2665: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 2666: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 2667:
2668: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
2669: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
2670: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
2671: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
2672: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 2673: <p>
1.33 louis 2674:
1.247 jufi 2675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2676: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 2677: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 2678: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2679:
1.113 naddy 2680: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
2681: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 2682: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
2683: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
2684: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 2685: <p>
1.247 jufi 2686: </ul>
1.57 louis 2687:
1.69 deraadt 2688: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2689: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2690:
1.247 jufi 2691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2692: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 2693: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 2694: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2695:
2696: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
2697: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 2698: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2699:
1.247 jufi 2700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2701: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
2702: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
2703: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 2704: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 2705:
2706: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 2707: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 2708:
1.247 jufi 2709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2710: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2711:
1.113 naddy 2712: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 2713:
1.247 jufi 2714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 2715: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
2716: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 2717: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2718:
2719: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 2720: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 2721: </ul>
1.23 louis 2722:
1.69 deraadt 2723: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2724: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2725:
1.247 jufi 2726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2727: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 2728: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2729:
2730: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
2731: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 2732: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2733:
1.247 jufi 2734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2735: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 2736: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2737: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2738:
2739: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
2740: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 2741: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 2742: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2743: </ul>
1.57 louis 2744:
1.69 deraadt 2745: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2746: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2747:
1.247 jufi 2748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 2749: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
2750: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 2751: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 2752:
2753: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
2754: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
2755: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
2756: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2757: <p>
1.15 louis 2758:
1.247 jufi 2759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2760: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
2761: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 2762: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2763:
2764: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
2765: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
2766: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
2767: columns."
1.113 naddy 2768: <p>
1.247 jufi 2769: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2770:
1.69 deraadt 2771: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2772: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2773:
1.247 jufi 2774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2775: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 2776: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2777: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2778:
2779: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 2780: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 2781:
1.113 naddy 2782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2783: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 2784: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2785:
2786: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
2787: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 2788: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 2789: </ul>
1.57 louis 2790:
1.69 deraadt 2791: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2792: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2793:
1.113 naddy 2794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2795: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 2796: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 2797: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2798:
1.222 miod 2799: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 2800: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
2801: Implementation, including a brief interview with
2802: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 2803: <p>
1.247 jufi 2804: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2805:
1.69 deraadt 2806: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2807: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2808:
1.247 jufi 2809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2810: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 2811: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2812:
1.69 deraadt 2813: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
2814: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 2815: <p>
1.247 jufi 2816: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2817:
1.69 deraadt 2818: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2819: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 2820:
1.247 jufi 2821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2822: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
2823: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 2824: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2825:
2826: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
2827: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 2828: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2829:
1.247 jufi 2830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 2831: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 2832: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
2833: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 2834: <p>
1.247 jufi 2835: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2836:
1.69 deraadt 2837: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2838: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2839:
1.247 jufi 2840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2841: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 2842: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
2843: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 2844: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 2845: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2846:
2847: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
2848: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
2849: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 2850: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 2851: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 2852: <p>
1.247 jufi 2853: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 2854:
2855: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2856: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2857:
1.247 jufi 2858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2859: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 2860: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2861:
1.69 deraadt 2862: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
2863: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 2864: <p>
1.112 naddy 2865:
1.247 jufi 2866: </ul>
1.113 naddy 2867: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2868:
1.113 naddy 2869: <hr>
2870: <a name=se></a>
1.247 jufi 2871: <h3><font color="#e00000">Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 2872:
1.200 niklas 2873: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2874:
1.247 jufi 2875: <ul>
2876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2877: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2878: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2879:
2880: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2881: <p>
2882:
1.247 jufi 2883: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2884:
2885: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2886:
1.247 jufi 2887: <ul>
2888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2889: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2890: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2891:
2892: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2893: <p>
2894:
1.247 jufi 2895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2896: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2897: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2898:
2899: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2900: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2901: <p>
2902:
1.247 jufi 2903: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2904:
2905: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2906:
1.247 jufi 2907: <ul>
2908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2909: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2910: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2911:
2912: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2913: <p>
2914:
1.247 jufi 2915: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2916:
1.102 niklas 2917: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2918:
1.247 jufi 2919: <ul>
2920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.103 niklas 2921: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2922: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2923:
2924: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2925: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2926: <p>
1.102 niklas 2927:
1.247 jufi 2928: </ul>
1.102 niklas 2929:
1.84 niklas 2930: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2931:
1.247 jufi 2932: <ul>
2933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.84 niklas 2934: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2935: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2936:
2937: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2938: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2939: <p>
1.84 niklas 2940:
1.247 jufi 2941: </ul>
1.84 niklas 2942:
1.69 deraadt 2943: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2944:
1.247 jufi 2945: <ul>
2946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2947: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2948: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2949:
1.222 miod 2950: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
1.1 deraadt 2951: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2952: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2953: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2954:
1.247 jufi 2955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2956: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2957: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2958: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2959: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2960:
1.20 louis 2961: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2962: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2963: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2964: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2965: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2966:
1.247 jufi 2967: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2968:
1.113 naddy 2969: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2970: <a name=fi></a>
1.247 jufi 2971: <h3><font color="#e00000">Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
1.202 jufi 2972:
2973:
2974: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2975: <ul>
1.202 jufi 2976:
1.247 jufi 2977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.202 jufi 2978: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2979: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2980:
2981: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2982: will be removed from OpenBSD.
1.247 jufi 2983: </ul>
1.202 jufi 2984:
2985: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2986: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2987:
1.247 jufi 2988: <h3><font color="#e00000">Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 2989:
2990:
1.170 louis 2991: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2992: <ul>
1.170 louis 2993:
1.247 jufi 2994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.170 louis 2995: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
2996: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2997: </strong></font><br>
2998:
2999: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3000: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3001: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3002: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3003: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3004: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3005: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.170 louis 3006: <p>
1.247 jufi 3007: </ul>
1.170 louis 3008:
1.69 deraadt 3009: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3010: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3011:
1.247 jufi 3012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.135 ericj 3013: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 3014: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 3015: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 3016:
3017: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3018: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3019: translating and reprinting articles from
3020: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 3021: <p>
1.247 jufi 3022: </ul>
1.20 louis 3023:
1.113 naddy 3024: <hr>
3025: <a name=de></a>
1.247 jufi 3026: <h3><font color="#e00000">Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
1.50 louis 3027:
1.246 jufi 3028: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3029: <ul>
3030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3031: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
3032: December 04, 2002
3033: </strong></font><br>
3034: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
3035: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3036: <p>
1.247 jufi 3037: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3038:
1.151 louis 3039: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3040: <ul>
1.151 louis 3041:
1.247 jufi 3042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.151 louis 3043: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3044: </strong></font><br>
3045:
3046: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3047: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3048: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3049: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3050: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3051: <p>
1.247 jufi 3052: </ul>
1.151 louis 3053:
1.72 louis 3054: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3055: <ul>
1.72 louis 3056:
1.247 jufi 3057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.109 reinhard 3058: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 3059: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 3060: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 3061:
1.101 jufi 3062: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 3063: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3064: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 3065: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 3066: Giving way to
3067: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3068: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3069: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3070: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 3071: <p>
1.247 jufi 3072: </ul>
1.72 louis 3073:
1.69 deraadt 3074: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3075: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3076:
1.247 jufi 3077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3078: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 3079: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 3080: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 3081:
3082: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3083: <p>
1.247 jufi 3084: </ul>
1.112 naddy 3085:
1.50 louis 3086:
1.113 naddy 3087: <hr>
3088: <a name=ru></a>
1.247 jufi 3089: <h3><font color="#e00000">Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
1.56 deraadt 3090:
1.69 deraadt 3091: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3092: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3093:
1.247 jufi 3094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.98 deraadt 3095: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 3096: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
1.113 naddy 3097: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 3098:
3099: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 3100: <p>
1.247 jufi 3101: </ul>
1.62 form 3102:
1.69 deraadt 3103: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3104: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3105:
1.247 jufi 3106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.98 deraadt 3107: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 3108: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
1.113 naddy 3109: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 3110:
1.59 form 3111: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 3112: <p>
1.112 naddy 3113:
1.247 jufi 3114: </ul>
1.112 naddy 3115:
1.113 naddy 3116: <hr>
3117: <a name=pl></a>
1.247 jufi 3118: <h3><font color="#e00000">Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
3119: <ul>
1.56 deraadt 3120:
1.247 jufi 3121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.129 louis 3122: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
3123: Radio, August 2, 2000
3124: </strong></font><br>
3125:
3126: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 3127: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 3128: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3129: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3130: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3131: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3132: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3133: <p>
3134:
1.247 jufi 3135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3136: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3137: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
3138: January 2000
1.113 naddy 3139: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3140:
3141: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3142: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3143: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3144: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3145: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3146: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.247 jufi 3147: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
1.113 naddy 3148: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 3149: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3150: with the translation. For the full text, see the
3151: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
3152: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 3153: <p>
1.247 jufi 3154: </ul>
1.56 deraadt 3155:
1.113 naddy 3156: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3157: <a name=es></a>
1.247 jufi 3158: <h3><font color="#e00000">Spanish press coverage (in Spanish)</font></h3><p>
1.216 horacio 3159:
3160: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3161: <ul>
1.216 horacio 3162:
1.247 jufi 3163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.216 horacio 3164: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3165: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3166: </strong></font><br>
3167:
3168: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1.217 jufi 3169: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1.216 horacio 3170: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
3171: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
3172: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3173: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1.247 jufi 3174: A
1.216 horacio 3175: Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3176: <p>
1.247 jufi 3177: </ul>
1.216 horacio 3178:
1.252 miod 3179: <hr>
3180: <a name=fr></a>
3181: <h3><font color="#e00000">French press coverage (in French)</font></h3><p>
3182:
3183: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3184: <ul>
3185:
3186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3187: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">OpenBSD ne
3188: désarme pas</a>, Libroscope interview, Marc 19, 2003
3189: </strong></font><br>
3190:
3191: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3192: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3193: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3194: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3195: <p>
3196: </ul>
3197:
1.216 horacio 3198:
3199: <hr>
3200: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3201: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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