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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>
1.277 ! deraadt 210: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
! 211: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
! 212: OS News, April 18, 2003.
! 213: </strong></font><br>
! 214: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
! 215: <p>
! 216:
! 217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 218: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
219: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 220: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 221: </strong></font><br>
222: Another report on the DARPA funding.
223: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
224: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
225: <p>
226:
227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 228: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
229: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 230: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 231: </strong></font><br>
232: (also online at
233: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
234: BusinessWeek.com</a>)
235: <br>
236: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
237: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
238: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
239: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
240: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
241: Goes on to say:
242: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
243: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
244: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
245: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
246: <p>
247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 ! deraadt 248:
1.260 ian 249: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
250: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.269 deraadt 251: SlashDot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 252: </strong></font><br>
1.265 deraadt 253: SlashDot report (and user folloups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 254: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
255: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
256: without notice or justification.
257: <p>
258:
259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
260: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
261: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 262: MARC (Mailing list ARchives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 263: </strong></font><br>
264: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
265: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
266: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
267: effective today, without any warning..."
268: <p>
1.257 ian 269:
270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 271: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
272: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 273: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 274: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 275: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
276: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
277: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
278: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
279: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 280: <p>
281:
282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 283: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
284: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 285: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 286: </strong></font><br>
287: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
288: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
289: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
290: quoting two of them:
291: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
292: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
293: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
294: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
295: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
296: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
297: <p>
298:
1.255 ian 299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 300: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
301: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 302: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 303: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 304: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 305: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
306: security experts for more than three decades."
307: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
308: <p>
1.261 ian 309:
1.254 drahn 310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 311: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
312: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 313: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 314: </strong></font><br>
315: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
316: from US DARPA.
317: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
318: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
319: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
320: the BSD license.
321: <p>
322: </ul>
323:
1.251 ian 324: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
325: <ul>
326:
327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
328: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
329: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 330: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 331: </strong></font><br>
332: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
333: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
334: Mentions
335: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
336: and
337: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
338: programs.
339: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
340: goverment purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
341: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
342: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
343: <p>
1.260 ian 344:
345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
346: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
347: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
348: </strong></font><br>
349: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
350: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
351: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
352: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
353: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
354: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
355: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
356: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
357: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
358: put into service."
359: <p>
360: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
361: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
362: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
363: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
364: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
365: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
366: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
367: computers with security features."
368: <p>
1.251 ian 369: </ul>
370:
1.249 jufi 371: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
372: <ul>
373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
374: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
375: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 376: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 377: </strong></font><br>
378: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
379: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
380: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no reponse politics.
381: <p>
382: </ul>
383:
1.246 jufi 384: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 385: <ul>
1.246 jufi 386:
1.247 jufi 387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 388: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 389: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
390: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 391: </strong></font><br>
392: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
393: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
394: <p>
395:
1.247 jufi 396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 397: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 398: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
399: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 400: </strong></font><br>
401: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
402: in their annual OpenHack security test.
403: <p>
1.247 jufi 404: </ul>
1.246 jufi 405:
1.244 jufi 406: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 407: <ul>
1.246 jufi 408:
1.247 jufi 409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 410: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
411: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
412: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 413: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 414: </strong></font><br>
415: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
416: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
417: md5 digests.
418: <p>
419:
1.247 jufi 420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 421: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 422: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
423: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 424: </strong></font><br>
425: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
426: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
427: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
428: right the first time."
429: <p>
1.247 jufi 430: </ul>
1.244 jufi 431:
432:
433: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 434: <ul>
1.244 jufi 435:
1.247 jufi 436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 437: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 438: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
439: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 440: </strong></font><br>
441: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
442: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
443: part 6</a>.
444: <p>
445:
1.247 jufi 446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 447: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 448: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
449: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 450: </strong></font><br>
451: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
452: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
453: <p>
1.247 jufi 454: </ul>
1.242 jufi 455:
456: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 457: <ul>
1.242 jufi 458:
1.247 jufi 459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 460: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 461: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
462: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 463: </strong></font><br>
464: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
465: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
466: <p>
467:
1.247 jufi 468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 469: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 470: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
471: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 472: </strong></font><br>
473: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
474: this time using pf.
475: <p>
1.247 jufi 476: </ul>
1.242 jufi 477:
478: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 479: <ul>
1.242 jufi 480:
1.247 jufi 481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 482: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 483: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
484: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 485: </strong></font><br>
486: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
487: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
488: their rotation.
489: <p>
490:
1.247 jufi 491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 492: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 493: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
494: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 495: </strong></font><br>
496: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
497: <p>
1.247 jufi 498: </ul>
1.242 jufi 499:
1.239 jufi 500: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 501: <ul>
1.239 jufi 502:
1.247 jufi 503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 504: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 505: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
506: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 507: </strong></font><br>
508: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
509: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
510: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
511: <p>
512:
1.247 jufi 513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 514: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 515: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
516: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 517: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 518: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
519: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
520: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 521: <p>
1.247 jufi 522: </ul>
1.239 jufi 523:
1.235 lebel 524: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 525: <ul>
1.235 lebel 526:
1.239 jufi 527:
1.247 jufi 528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 529: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 530: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
531: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 532: </strong></font><br>
533: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
534: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
535: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
536: <p>
1.247 jufi 537: </ul>
1.235 lebel 538:
1.228 horacio 539: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 540: <ul>
1.228 horacio 541:
1.247 jufi 542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 543: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 544: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
545: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 546: </strong></font><br>
547: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
548: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
549: <p>
550:
1.247 jufi 551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 552: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 553: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
554: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 555: </strong></font><br>
556: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
557: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
558: <p>
559:
1.247 jufi 560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 561: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 562: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
563: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 564: </strong></font><br>
565: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
566: on the desktop of his parents.
567: <p>
568:
1.247 jufi 569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 570: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 571: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
572: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 573: </strong></font><br>
574: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
575: using IPFilter.
576:
577: <p>
578:
1.247 jufi 579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 580: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 581: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
582: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 583: </strong></font><br>
584: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
585: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
586: perspectives of the four OS.
587: <br>
588: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 589: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 590: <p>
591:
1.247 jufi 592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 593: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
594: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 595: software and security</a>,
596: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 597: </strong></font><br>
598:
599: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
600: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
601: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
602: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
603: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
604: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
605: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
606: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
607: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
608: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
609: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
610: security conscious team beyond doubt.
611: <p>
1.247 jufi 612: </ul>
1.228 horacio 613:
1.225 horacio 614: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 615: <ul>
1.225 horacio 616:
1.247 jufi 617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 618: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
619: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 620: Interview</a>,
621: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 622: </strong></font><br>
623:
624: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
625: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
626: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 627: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 628: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
629: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
630: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
631: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
632: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 633: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 634: of choice.
635: <p>
1.247 jufi 636: </ul>
1.225 horacio 637:
638: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 639: <ul>
1.225 horacio 640:
1.247 jufi 641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 642: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 643: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
644: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 645: </strong></font><br>
646:
647: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
648: <p>
649:
1.247 jufi 650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 651: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 652: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
653: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 654: </strong></font><br>
655:
656: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
657: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
658: <p>
1.247 jufi 659: </ul>
1.225 horacio 660:
1.218 horacio 661: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 662: <ul>
1.218 horacio 663:
1.247 jufi 664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 665: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 666: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
667: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 668: </strong></font><br>
669:
670: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
671: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
672: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
673: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
674: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
675: subjects. Worth a read.
676: <p>
677:
678:
1.247 jufi 679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 680: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 681: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
682: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 683: </strong></font><br>
684:
685: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
686: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
687: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
688: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
689: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
690: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
691: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
692: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
693: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 694: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 695: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
696: on other operating systems.<br>
697: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
698: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
699: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
700: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
701: <p>
702:
1.247 jufi 703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 704: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 705: Operating System 2010</a>,
706: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 707: </strong></font><br>
708:
709: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
710: covering the level of software integration into the core
711: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
712: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
713: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
714: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
715: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
716: <p>
717:
1.247 jufi 718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 719: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 720: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
721: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 722: </strong></font><br>
723:
724: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
725: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
726: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
727: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
728: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
729: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
730: <p>
1.247 jufi 731: </ul>
1.221 horacio 732:
1.210 jufi 733: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 734: <ul>
1.215 horacio 735:
1.247 jufi 736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 737: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 738: Already a Contender</a>,
739: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 740: </strong></font><br>
741:
742: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
743: source software in response to an article which claimed that
744: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
745: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
746: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
747: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
748: <p>
749:
1.247 jufi 750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 751: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 752: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
753: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 754: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 755:
1.224 horacio 756: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
757: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
758: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
759: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
760: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
761: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 762: <p>
1.247 jufi 763: </ul>
1.215 horacio 764:
765: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 766: <ul>
1.215 horacio 767:
1.247 jufi 768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 769: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
770: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 771: Division</a>,
772: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 773: </strong></font><br>
774:
775: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
776: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 777: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 778: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
779: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
780: investment</em>.<br>
781: The implementation details can be seen on their
782: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
783: <p>
784:
1.247 jufi 785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 786: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 787: Thinking about Security</a>,
788: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 789: </strong></font><br>
790:
791: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
792: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
793: security and says that even secured operating systems running
794: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
795: to time.<br>
796: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
797: system and just the most secure system.
798: <p>
799:
1.247 jufi 800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 801: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 802: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
803: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 804: </strong></font><br>
805:
806: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
807: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
808: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
809: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
810: choice:<br>
811: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
812: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
813: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
814: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
815: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
816: network security devices and as such must be well
817: armored."</em><br>
818: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
819: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
820: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
821: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
822: <br>
823: Bravo!
824: <p>
1.247 jufi 825: </ul>
1.210 jufi 826:
1.207 ian 827: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 828: <ul>
1.215 horacio 829:
1.247 jufi 830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 831: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
832: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
833: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 834:
1.207 ian 835: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
836: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 837: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 838: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
839: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
840: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 841: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 842: <p>
1.247 jufi 843: </ul>
1.207 ian 844:
1.194 jufi 845: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 846: <ul>
1.194 jufi 847:
1.247 jufi 848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 849: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 850: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
851: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 852: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 853:
1.240 miod 854: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 855: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
856: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
857: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
858: <p>
859:
1.247 jufi 860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 861: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 862: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
863: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
864: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 865:
1.240 miod 866: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 867: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 868: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
869: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
870: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 871: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 872: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
873: <br>
874: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
875: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
876: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
877: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
878: <p>
879:
1.247 jufi 880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 881: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
882: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 883: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 884: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 885:
1.194 jufi 886: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
887: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
888: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
889: <br>
890: The new
891: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 892: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 893: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
894: <p>
1.247 jufi 895: </ul>
1.194 jufi 896:
1.190 horacio 897: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 898: <ul>
1.190 horacio 899:
1.247 jufi 900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 901:
902: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
903: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
904:
905: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
906: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
907:
908: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
909: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
910:
1.212 horacio 911: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
912: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 913: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
914:
1.211 horacio 915: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
916: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 917: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
918:
1.247 jufi 919: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 920: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
921:
1.247 jufi 922: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 923: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
924:
1.212 horacio 925: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
926: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 927: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
928:
929: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
930: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
931:
932: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
933: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
934:
935: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
936: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
937:
938: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 939: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 940:
1.192 jufi 941: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
942: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 943: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 944:
1.193 deraadt 945: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
946: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 947: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 948:
1.247 jufi 949: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 950: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
951:
1.247 jufi 952: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 953: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
954: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
955:
1.213 horacio 956: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 957: 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 958: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
959:
1.190 horacio 960: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 961: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
962: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
963: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
964: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
965: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
966: <p>
1.190 horacio 967:
1.247 jufi 968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 969: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
970: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
971: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 972: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 973:
1.195 jufi 974: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 975: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
976: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
977: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 978: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
979: <p>
980:
1.247 jufi 981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 982: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 983: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
984: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
985: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 986:
1.191 jufi 987: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
988: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
989: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
990: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 991: <p>
1.247 jufi 992: </ul>
1.190 horacio 993:
1.191 jufi 994:
1.186 jufi 995: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 996: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 997:
1.247 jufi 998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 999: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1000: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1001: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1002: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1003:
1.188 jufi 1004: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1005: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1006: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1007: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1008: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1009: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1010: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1011: <p>
1012:
1.191 jufi 1013:
1.247 jufi 1014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1015: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1016: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1017: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1018: </strong></font><br>
1019:
1020: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1021: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1022: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1023: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1024: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1025: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1026: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1027: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1028: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1029: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1030: familiar?
1031: <p>
1.247 jufi 1032: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1033:
1.178 louis 1034: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1035: <ul>
1.178 louis 1036:
1.247 jufi 1037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1038: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1039: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1040: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1041: </strong></font><br>
1042:
1043: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1044: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1045: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1046: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1047: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1048: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1049: <p>
1050:
1.247 jufi 1051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1052: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1053: Open source under the hood</a>,
1054: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1055: </strong></font><br>
1056:
1057: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1058: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1059: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1060: <p>
1061:
1.247 jufi 1062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1063: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1064: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1065: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1066: </strong></font><br>
1067:
1068: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1069: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1070: <p>
1.247 jufi 1071: </ul>
1.179 louis 1072:
1.174 louis 1073:
1.175 louis 1074: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1075: <ul>
1.175 louis 1076:
1.247 jufi 1077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1078: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1079: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1080: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1081: </strong></font><br>
1082:
1083: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1084: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1085: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1086: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1087: <p>
1088:
1.247 jufi 1089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1090: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1091: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1092: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1093: </strong></font><br>
1094:
1095: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1096: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1097: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1098: <p>
1.247 jufi 1099: </ul>
1.175 louis 1100:
1.176 louis 1101:
1.172 mickey 1102: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1103: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1104:
1.247 jufi 1105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1106: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1107: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1108: </strong></font><br>
1109:
1110: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1111: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1112: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1113: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1114: <p>
1115:
1.247 jufi 1116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1117: <a
1.269 deraadt 1118: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1119: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1120: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1121: </strong></font><br>
1122:
1123: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1124: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1125: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1126: <p>
1127:
1.247 jufi 1128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1129: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1130: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1131: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1132: </strong></font><br>
1133:
1134: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1135: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1136: <p>
1137:
1.247 jufi 1138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1139: <a
1.269 deraadt 1140: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1141: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1142: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1143: </strong></font><br>
1144:
1145: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1146: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1147: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1148: our own Theo de Raadt.
1149: <p>
1150:
1.247 jufi 1151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1152: <a
1.269 deraadt 1153: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1154: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1155: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1156: </strong></font><br>
1157:
1158: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1159: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1160: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1161: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1162: shut down.]
1163: <p>
1164:
1.247 jufi 1165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1166: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1167: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1168: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1169: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1170: </strong></font><br>
1171:
1172: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1173: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1174: <p>
1.247 jufi 1175: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1176:
1.161 louis 1177: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1178: <ul>
1.161 louis 1179:
1.247 jufi 1180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1181: <a
1.269 deraadt 1182: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1183: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1184: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1185: </strong></font><br>
1186:
1187: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1188: by John Wolley
1189: <p>
1190:
1.247 jufi 1191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1192: <a
1.269 deraadt 1193: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1194: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1195: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1196: </strong></font><br>
1197:
1198: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1199: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1200: OpenBSD).
1201: <p>
1202:
1.247 jufi 1203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1204: <a
1.247 jufi 1205: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1206: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1207: </strong></font><br>
1208:
1209: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1210: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1211: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1212: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1213: and hindsight.
1214: <p>
1215:
1.247 jufi 1216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1217: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1218: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1219: </strong></font><br>
1220:
1221: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1222: <p>
1223:
1.247 jufi 1224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1225: <a
1.168 provos 1226: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1227: December 7, 2000
1228: </strong></font><br>
1229:
1230: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1231: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1232: us explain.
1233: <p>
1234:
1.247 jufi 1235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1236: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1237: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1238: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1239: December 6, 2000
1240: </strong></font><br>
1241:
1242: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1243: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1244: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1245: <p>
1246:
1.247 jufi 1247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1248: <a
1.226 horacio 1249: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1250: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1251: </strong></font><br>
1252:
1253: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1254: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1255: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1256: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1257: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1258: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1259: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1260: <p>
1.162 millert 1261:
1.247 jufi 1262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1263: <a
1.161 louis 1264: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1265: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1266: </strong></font><br>
1267:
1268: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1269: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1270: <p>
1271:
1.247 jufi 1272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1273: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1274: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1275: </strong></font><br>
1276:
1277: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1278: <p>
1279:
1280:
1.247 jufi 1281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1282: <a
1.226 horacio 1283: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1284: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1285: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1286: </strong></font><br>
1287:
1288: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1289: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1290: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1291: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1292: <p>
1.247 jufi 1293: </ul>
1.169 louis 1294:
1.158 louis 1295: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1296: <ul>
1.147 louis 1297:
1.247 jufi 1298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1299: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1300: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1301: </strong></font><br>
1302:
1303: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1304: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1305: <p>
1306:
1.247 jufi 1307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1308: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1309: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1310: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1311: </strong></font><br>
1312: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1313: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1314: <p>
1315:
1.247 jufi 1316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1317: <a
1318: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1319: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1320: </strong></font><br>
1321:
1322: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1323: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1324: <p>
1325:
1.247 jufi 1326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1327: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1328: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1329: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1330:
1.213 horacio 1331: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 1332: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1333: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1334: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1335: <p>
1.215 horacio 1336:
1.247 jufi 1337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1338: <a
1339: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1340: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1341: </strong></font><br>
1342:
1343: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1344: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1345: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1346: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1347: much of the attitude too).
1348: <p>
1.161 louis 1349:
1.247 jufi 1350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1351: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1352: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1353: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1354:
1.157 louis 1355: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
1356: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
1357: <p>
1.247 jufi 1358: </ul>
1.157 louis 1359:
1360: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1361: <ul>
1.157 louis 1362:
1.247 jufi 1363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1364: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1365: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 1366: </strong></font><br>
1367:
1368: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
1369: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
1370: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
1371: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
1372: <p>
1373:
1.247 jufi 1374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 1375: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
1376: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
1377: </strong></font><br>
1378:
1379: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
1380: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
1381: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
1382: it because they love coding...
1383: <p>
1384:
1.247 jufi 1385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 1386: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
1387: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
1388: </strong></font><br>
1389:
1390: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
1391: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
1392: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
1393: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
1394: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
1395: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
1396: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
1397: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
1398: <p>
1399:
1.247 jufi 1400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1401: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
1402: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
1403: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 1404: </strong></font><br>
1405:
1406: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
1407: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
1408: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
1409: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
1410: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
1411: the pizza.
1412: <p>
1413:
1.247 jufi 1414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 1415: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
1416: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
1417: </strong></font><br>
1418:
1419: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
1420: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
1421: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
1422: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
1423: problems.
1424: <p>
1425:
1.247 jufi 1426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 1427: <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 1428: </strong></font><br>
1429:
1.222 miod 1430: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 1431: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
1432: - whether they like it or not.
1433: <p>
1434:
1.247 jufi 1435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1436: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
1437: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 1438: </strong></font><br>
1439:
1440: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
1441: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
1442: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 1443: <p>
1.148 aaron 1444:
1.247 jufi 1445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1446: <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 1447: </strong></font><br>
1448:
1449: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
1450: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
1451: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
1452: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
1453: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
1454: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
1455: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
1456: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
1457: <p>
1458:
1.247 jufi 1459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1460: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
1461: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 1462: </strong></font><br>
1463:
1464: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
1465: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1466: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
1467: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
1468: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
1469: <p>
1.247 jufi 1470: </ul>
1.147 louis 1471:
1.138 louis 1472: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1473: <ul>
1.138 louis 1474:
1.247 jufi 1475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1476: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1477: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
1478: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
1479: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 1480: </strong></font><br>
1481:
1.227 horacio 1482: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 1483: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
1484: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
1485: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
1486: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
1487: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
1488: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
1489: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 1490: <p>
1491:
1.247 jufi 1492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 1493: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 1494: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 1495: </strong></font><br>
1496:
1497: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
1498: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
1499: groups, and even Linux.
1500: <p>
1501:
1.247 jufi 1502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1503: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
1504: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 1505: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
1506: </strong></font><br>
1507:
1508: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
1509: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
1510: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
1511: library after installing the OS.
1512: <p>
1513:
1.247 jufi 1514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1515: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 1516: Sys Admin, September 2000
1517: </strong></font><br>
1518:
1519: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
1520: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
1521: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
1522: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 1523: (<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>,
1524: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
1525: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
1526: <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 1527: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 1528: out of the system.
1529: <p>
1530:
1.247 jufi 1531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 1532: <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
1533: </strong></font><br>
1534:
1535: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 1536: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1537: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
1538: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
1539: the IP filtering and address translation.
1540: <p>
1.247 jufi 1541: </ul>
1.200 niklas 1542:
1.131 louis 1543: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1544: <ul>
1.131 louis 1545:
1.247 jufi 1546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1547: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
1548: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
1549: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 1550: </strong></font><br>
1551:
1552: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
1553: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
1554: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
1555: <p>
1556:
1.247 jufi 1557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 1558: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
1559: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
1560: </strong></font><br>
1561:
1562: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
1563: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
1564: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
1565: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
1566: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
1567: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
1568: note of"</i>.
1569: <p>
1570:
1.247 jufi 1571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 1572: <a
1.247 jufi 1573: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 1574: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
1575: </strong></font><br>
1576:
1577: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
1578: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
1579: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
1580: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
1581: <p>
1582:
1.247 jufi 1583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 1584: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 1585: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
1586: </strong></font><br>
1587:
1588: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
1589: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
1590: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
1591: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
1592: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
1593: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
1594: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
1595: <p>
1596:
1.247 jufi 1597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 1598: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
1599: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
1600: 2000
1601: </strong></font><br>
1602:
1603: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
1604: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
1605: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
1606: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
1607: against current industry practices.
1608: <p>
1609:
1.247 jufi 1610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 1611: <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
1612: </strong></font><br>
1613:
1614: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1615: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1616: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1617: <p>
1618:
1.247 jufi 1619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 1620: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1621: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1622: </strong></font><br>
1623:
1624: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1625: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1626: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1627: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1628: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1629: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1630: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1631: <p>
1632:
1.247 jufi 1633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 1634: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1635: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1636: </strong></font><br>
1637:
1638: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1639: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1640: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1641: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1642: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1643: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1644: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1645: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1646: <p>
1.247 jufi 1647: </ul>
1.131 louis 1648:
1.118 louis 1649: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1650: <ul>
1.118 louis 1651:
1.247 jufi 1652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1653: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1654: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1655: </strong></font><br>
1656:
1657: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
1658: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
1659: about time. The article mentions that
1660: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
1661: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
1662: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 1663: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 1664: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
1665: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 1666: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 1667: <p>
1668:
1.247 jufi 1669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1670: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 1671: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1672: </strong></font><br>
1673:
1674: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
1675: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
1676: of OpenSSH.
1677: <p>
1678:
1.247 jufi 1679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1680: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1681: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1682: </strong></font><br>
1683:
1684: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 1685: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 1686: bridging.
1687: <p>
1688:
1.247 jufi 1689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1690: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
1691: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 1692: </strong></font><br>
1693:
1.121 deraadt 1694: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
1695: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 1696: <p>
1697:
1.247 jufi 1698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1699: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
1700: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
1701: </strong></font><br>
1702:
1703: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
1704: <p>
1705:
1.247 jufi 1706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 1707: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1708: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1709: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 1710: </strong></font><br>
1711:
1.120 deraadt 1712: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
1713: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 1714: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
1715: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
1716: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
1717: <p>
1718:
1.247 jufi 1719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 1720: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
1721: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
1722: </strong></font><br>
1723:
1.222 miod 1724: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 1725: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
1726: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
1727: protocols and their quirks.
1728: <p>
1729:
1.247 jufi 1730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1731: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
1732: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 1733: </strong></font><br>
1734:
1735: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
1736: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
1737: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 1738: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 1739: <p>
1740:
1.247 jufi 1741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 1742: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
1743: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
1744: </strong></font><br>
1745:
1746: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
1747: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
1748: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
1749: <p>
1750:
1.247 jufi 1751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 1752: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1753: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
1754: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 1755: </strong></font><br>
1756:
1757: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
1758: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
1759: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
1760: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
1761: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
1762: <p>
1.247 jufi 1763: </ul>
1.118 louis 1764:
1.104 louis 1765: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1766: <ul>
1.104 louis 1767:
1.247 jufi 1768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 1769: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1770: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
1771: </strong></font><br>
1772:
1773: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
1774: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
1775: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
1776: be a bit dry.
1777: <p>
1778:
1.247 jufi 1779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1780: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
1781: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
1782: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
1783: </strong></font><br>
1784: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
1785: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
1786: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
1787: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
1788: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
1789: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
1790: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
1791: <p>
1792:
1.247 jufi 1793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1794: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
1795: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 1796: 2000
1.128 louis 1797: </strong></font><br>
1798:
1799: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
1800: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
1801: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
1802: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
1803: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 1804: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 1805: <p>
1806:
1.247 jufi 1807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1808: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
1809: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 1810: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 1811:
1812: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
1813: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
1814: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
1815: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 1816: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1817: <p>
1.110 louis 1818:
1.247 jufi 1819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 1820: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
1821: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
1822: </strong></font><br>
1823:
1824: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
1825: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
1826: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
1827: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
1828: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
1829: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
1830: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
1831: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
1832: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
1833: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
1834: <p>
1835:
1.247 jufi 1836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 1837: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1838: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1839:
1840: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1841: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1842: <p>
1.108 louis 1843:
1.247 jufi 1844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 1845: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1846: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1847: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1848:
1849: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1850: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1851: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1852: <p>
1.106 louis 1853:
1.247 jufi 1854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 1855: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1856: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1857: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1858:
1859: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1860: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1861: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1862: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1863: <p>
1.107 louis 1864:
1.247 jufi 1865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1866: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
1867: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1868: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1869:
1870: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1871: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1872: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1873: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1874: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1875: <p>
1.105 louis 1876:
1.247 jufi 1877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 1878: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1879: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1880: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1881:
1.113 naddy 1882: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1883: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1884: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1885: <p>
1.104 louis 1886:
1.247 jufi 1887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1888: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1889: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1890: </strong></font><br>
1891:
1892: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1893: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1894: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1895: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1896: <p>
1.247 jufi 1897: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 1898:
1.85 louis 1899: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1900: <ul>
1.85 louis 1901:
1.247 jufi 1902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1903: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1904: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1905: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1906:
1907: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1908: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1909: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1910: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1911: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1912: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1913: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1914: <p>
1.99 louis 1915:
1.247 jufi 1916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1917: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1918: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1919: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1920:
1921: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1922: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1923: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1924: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1925: <p>
1.100 louis 1926:
1.247 jufi 1927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1928: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1929: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1930: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1931:
1932: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1933: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1934: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1935: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1936: <p>
1.95 louis 1937:
1.247 jufi 1938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1939: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1940: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1941: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1942:
1943: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1944: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1945: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1946: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1947: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1948: <p>
1.92 louis 1949:
1.247 jufi 1950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1951: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1952: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1953: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1954:
1955: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1956: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1957: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1958: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1959: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1960: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1961: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1962: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1963: <p>
1.91 louis 1964:
1.247 jufi 1965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1966: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1967: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1968: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1969:
1970: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1971: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1972: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1973: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1974: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1975: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1976: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1977: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1978: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1979: <p>
1.90 louis 1980:
1.247 jufi 1981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1982: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1983: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1984: </strong></font><br>
1985: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1986: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1987: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1988: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1989: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1990: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1991: <p>
1992:
1.247 jufi 1993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 1994: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1995: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1996: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1997:
1.113 naddy 1998: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1999: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2000: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2001: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2002: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2003: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2004: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2005: <p>
1.87 louis 2006:
1.247 jufi 2007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2008: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2009: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2010: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2011:
2012: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2013: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2014: <p>
1.85 louis 2015:
1.247 jufi 2016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2017: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2018: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2019: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2020:
2021: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2022: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2023: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2024: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2025: <p>
1.89 louis 2026:
1.247 jufi 2027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2028: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2029: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2030: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2031:
2032: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2033: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2034: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2035: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2036: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2037: </ul>
1.85 louis 2038:
1.78 deraadt 2039: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2040: <ul>
1.74 louis 2041:
1.247 jufi 2042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2043: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2044: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2045: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2046: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2047:
2048: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2049: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2050: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2051: <p>
1.83 louis 2052:
1.247 jufi 2053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2054: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2055: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2056: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2057:
2058: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2059: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2060: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2061: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2062: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2063: <p>
1.93 louis 2064:
1.247 jufi 2065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2066: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2067: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2068: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2069: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2070:
1.83 louis 2071: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2072: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2073: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2074: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2075: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2076: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2077: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2078: <p>
1.82 aaron 2079:
1.247 jufi 2080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2081: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2082: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2083: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2084:
1.83 louis 2085: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2086: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2087: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2088: <p>
1.80 louis 2089:
1.247 jufi 2090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2091: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2092: Bad Press</a>,
2093: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2094: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2095:
2096: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2097: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2098: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2099: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2100: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2101: <p>
1.247 jufi 2102: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2103:
2104: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2105: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2106:
1.247 jufi 2107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2108: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2109: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2110: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2111: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2112:
2113: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2114: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2115: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2116: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2117: <p>
1.74 louis 2118:
1.247 jufi 2119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2120: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2121: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2122: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2123:
1.219 horacio 2124: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2125: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2126: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2127: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2128: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2129: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2130: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2131: <p>
1.88 louis 2132:
1.247 jufi 2133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2134: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2135: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2136: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2137:
2138: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2139: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2140: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2141: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2142: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2143: <p>
1.81 louis 2144:
1.247 jufi 2145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2146: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2147: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2148: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2149:
2150: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2151: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2152: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2153: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2154: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2155: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2156: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2157: <p>
1.90 louis 2158:
1.247 jufi 2159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2160: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2161: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2162: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2163:
2164: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2165: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2166: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2167: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2168: <p>
1.247 jufi 2169: </ul>
1.71 louis 2170:
1.69 deraadt 2171: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2172: <ul>
1.70 louis 2173:
1.247 jufi 2174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2175: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2176: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2177: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2178:
2179: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2180: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2181: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2182: <p>
1.70 louis 2183:
1.247 jufi 2184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2185: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2186: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2187: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2188:
2189: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2190: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2191: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2192: <p>
1.68 louis 2193:
1.247 jufi 2194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2195: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2196: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2197: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2198: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2199:
1.111 jufi 2200: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2201: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2202: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2203: "secure by default" installation.
2204: <p>
1.64 louis 2205:
1.247 jufi 2206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2207: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2208: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2209: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2210:
1.113 naddy 2211: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2212: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2213: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2214: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2215: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2216: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2217: <p>
1.66 louis 2218:
1.247 jufi 2219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2220: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2221: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2222: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2223:
2224: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2225: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2226: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2227: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2228: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2229: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2230: <p>
1.83 louis 2231:
1.247 jufi 2232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2233: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2234: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2235: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2236:
2237: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2238: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2239: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2240: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2241: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2242: <p>
1.64 louis 2243:
1.247 jufi 2244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2245: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2246: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2247: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2248:
2249: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2250: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2251: <p>
1.247 jufi 2252: </ul>
1.65 louis 2253:
1.69 deraadt 2254: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2255: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2256:
1.247 jufi 2257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2258: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2259: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2260: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2261:
2262: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2263: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2264: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2265: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2266: <p>
1.88 louis 2267:
1.247 jufi 2268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2269: <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 2270: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2271:
2272: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2273: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2274: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2275: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2276: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2277: <p>
1.60 louis 2278:
1.247 jufi 2279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2280: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2281: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2282: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2283: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2284:
2285: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
2286: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
2287: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2288: <p>
1.58 louis 2289:
1.247 jufi 2290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 2291: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 2292: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2293:
2294: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
2295: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 2296: <p>
1.53 louis 2297:
1.247 jufi 2298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 2299: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
2300: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2301: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2302:
2303: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
2304: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
2305: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 2306: <p>
1.99 louis 2307:
1.247 jufi 2308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 2309: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 2310: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2311:
2312: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
2313: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 2314: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 2315: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 2316: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 2317:
1.247 jufi 2318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2319: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
2320: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 2321: </strong></font><br>
2322:
2323: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
2324: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
2325: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
2326: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
2327: <p>
2328:
1.247 jufi 2329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2330: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 2331: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2332: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2333:
2334: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
2335: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 2336: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 2337:
1.247 jufi 2338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 2339: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2340: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2341:
2342: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 2343: in
1.247 jufi 2344: <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 2345: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 2346: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 2347: <p>
1.53 louis 2348:
1.247 jufi 2349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2350: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 2351: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
2352: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 2353: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 2354:
1.58 louis 2355: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2356: <p>
1.247 jufi 2357: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 2358:
1.69 deraadt 2359: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2360: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2361:
1.247 jufi 2362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2363: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
2364: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
2365: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 2366: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2367:
1.58 louis 2368: Kurt Seifried
2369: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2370: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
2371: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 2372: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 2373:
1.247 jufi 2374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2375: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 2376: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2377: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 2378:
2379: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2380: <p>
1.96 louis 2381:
1.247 jufi 2382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2383: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 2384: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 2385: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 2386:
2387: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
2388: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
2389: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
2390: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 2391: <p>
1.247 jufi 2392: </ul>
1.86 louis 2393:
1.69 deraadt 2394: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2395: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2396:
1.247 jufi 2397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2398: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
2399: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 2400: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2401:
2402: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
2403: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 2404: <p>
1.61 louis 2405:
1.247 jufi 2406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2407: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 2408: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
2409: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2410: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 2411:
2412: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 2413: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 2414: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
2415: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 2416: right -- or at least strives to".
2417: <p>
1.48 louis 2418:
1.247 jufi 2419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2420: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
2421: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2422: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2423: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
2424: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
2425: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
2426: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 2427: <p>
1.61 louis 2428:
1.247 jufi 2429: <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 2430: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2431: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 2432:
2433: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
2434: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
2435: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
2436: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 2437: <p>
1.46 louis 2438:
1.247 jufi 2439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2440: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
2441: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2442: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2443:
2444: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
2445: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 2446: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 2447:
1.247 jufi 2448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 2449: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
2450: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 2451: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2452:
2453: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
2454: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
2455: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
2456: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 2457: <p>
1.247 jufi 2458: </ul>
1.70 louis 2459:
1.69 deraadt 2460: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2461: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2462:
1.247 jufi 2463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2464: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
2465: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 2466: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 2467: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 2468:
2469: Kurt Seifried
2470: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2471: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
2472: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 2473: <p>
1.44 philen 2474:
1.247 jufi 2475: <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 2476: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 2477: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 2478:
2479: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 2480: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 2481:
1.247 jufi 2482: <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 2483: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 2484: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 2485:
2486: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 2487: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 2488:
1.247 jufi 2489: <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 2490: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 2491: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 2492:
2493: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
2494: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
2495: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
2496: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 2497: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 2498:
1.247 jufi 2499: <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 2500: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 2501: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 2502:
1.36 louis 2503: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 2504: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 2505:
1.247 jufi 2506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2507: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
2508: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 2509: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2510:
2511: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 2512: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 2513: </ul>
1.38 louis 2514:
1.69 deraadt 2515: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2516: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2517:
1.247 jufi 2518: <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 2519: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 2520: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 2521:
2522: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
2523: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 2524: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 2525:
1.113 naddy 2526: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 2527: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 2528: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 2529: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 2530:
2531: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
2532: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 2533: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
2534: terminal:
1.113 naddy 2535: <blockquote>
2536: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
2537: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
2538: <br>
2539: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
2540: </code>
2541: </blockquote>
2542: <p>
2543:
1.247 jufi 2544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2545: <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>
2546: <p>
2547:
2548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2549: <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 2550: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 2551:
2552: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
2553: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 2554: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 2555: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 2556:
1.247 jufi 2557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 2558: <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 2559: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 2560:
2561: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
2562: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
2563: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
2564: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
2565: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 2566: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 2567: <p>
1.19 louis 2568:
1.113 naddy 2569: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 2570: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 2571: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 2572:
2573: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
2574: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
2575: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 2576: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
2577: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 2578: <p>
1.16 louis 2579:
1.247 jufi 2580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2581: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 2582: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 2583: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 2584:
1.57 louis 2585: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
2586: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
2587: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 2588: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 2589:
1.247 jufi 2590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2591: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 2592: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 2593: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2594:
1.113 naddy 2595: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 2596:
1.247 jufi 2597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2598: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
2599: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2600: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 2601:
1.23 louis 2602: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
2603: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
2604: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
2605: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
2606: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 2607: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 2608:
1.247 jufi 2609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 2610: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
2611: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2612: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 2613:
1.199 pvalchev 2614: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 2615: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
2616: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
2617: installation.
1.113 naddy 2618: <p>
1.47 louis 2619:
1.247 jufi 2620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2621: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 2622: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 2623: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2624:
2625: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 2626: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2627: </ul>
1.57 louis 2628:
1.69 deraadt 2629: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2630: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2631:
1.247 jufi 2632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 2633: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 2634: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 2635: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 2636:
2637: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
2638: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 2639: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2640: <p>
1.12 louis 2641:
1.247 jufi 2642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 2643: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 2644: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 2645: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 2646:
2647: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
2648: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 2649: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
2650: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
2651: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
2652: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
2653: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 2654: <p>
1.247 jufi 2655: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 2656:
1.69 deraadt 2657: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2658: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 2659:
1.247 jufi 2660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 2661: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 2662: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 2663:
2664: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
2665: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
2666: available."
1.113 naddy 2667: <p>
1.247 jufi 2668: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 2669:
1.69 deraadt 2670: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2671: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2672:
1.247 jufi 2673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 2674: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 2675: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 2676:
2677: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
2678: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
2679: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
2680: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
2681: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 2682: <p>
1.33 louis 2683:
1.247 jufi 2684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2685: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 2686: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 2687: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2688:
1.113 naddy 2689: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
2690: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 2691: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
2692: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
2693: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 2694: <p>
1.247 jufi 2695: </ul>
1.57 louis 2696:
1.69 deraadt 2697: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2698: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2699:
1.247 jufi 2700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2701: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 2702: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 2703: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2704:
2705: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
2706: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 2707: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2708:
1.247 jufi 2709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2710: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
2711: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
2712: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 2713: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 2714:
2715: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 2716: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 2717:
1.247 jufi 2718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2719: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2720:
1.113 naddy 2721: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 2722:
1.247 jufi 2723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 2724: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
2725: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 2726: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2727:
2728: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 2729: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 2730: </ul>
1.23 louis 2731:
1.69 deraadt 2732: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2733: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2734:
1.247 jufi 2735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2736: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 2737: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2738:
2739: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
2740: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 2741: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2742:
1.247 jufi 2743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2744: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 2745: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2746: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2747:
2748: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
2749: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 2750: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 2751: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2752: </ul>
1.57 louis 2753:
1.69 deraadt 2754: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2755: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2756:
1.247 jufi 2757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 2758: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
2759: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 2760: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 2761:
2762: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
2763: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
2764: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
2765: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2766: <p>
1.15 louis 2767:
1.247 jufi 2768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2769: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
2770: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 2771: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2772:
2773: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
2774: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
2775: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
2776: columns."
1.113 naddy 2777: <p>
1.247 jufi 2778: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2779:
1.69 deraadt 2780: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2781: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2782:
1.247 jufi 2783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2784: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 2785: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2786: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2787:
2788: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 2789: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 2790:
1.113 naddy 2791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2792: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 2793: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2794:
2795: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
2796: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 2797: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 2798: </ul>
1.57 louis 2799:
1.69 deraadt 2800: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2801: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2802:
1.113 naddy 2803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2804: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 2805: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 2806: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2807:
1.222 miod 2808: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 2809: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
2810: Implementation, including a brief interview with
2811: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 2812: <p>
1.247 jufi 2813: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2814:
1.69 deraadt 2815: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2816: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2817:
1.247 jufi 2818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2819: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 2820: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2821:
1.69 deraadt 2822: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
2823: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 2824: <p>
1.247 jufi 2825: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2826:
1.69 deraadt 2827: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2828: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 2829:
1.247 jufi 2830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2831: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
2832: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 2833: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2834:
2835: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
2836: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 2837: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2838:
1.247 jufi 2839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 2840: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 2841: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
2842: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 2843: <p>
1.247 jufi 2844: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2845:
1.69 deraadt 2846: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2847: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2848:
1.247 jufi 2849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2850: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 2851: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
2852: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 2853: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 2854: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2855:
2856: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
2857: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
2858: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 2859: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 2860: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 2861: <p>
1.247 jufi 2862: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 2863:
2864: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2865: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2866:
1.247 jufi 2867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2868: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 2869: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2870:
1.69 deraadt 2871: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
2872: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 2873: <p>
1.112 naddy 2874:
1.247 jufi 2875: </ul>
1.113 naddy 2876: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2877:
1.113 naddy 2878: <hr>
2879: <a name=se></a>
1.247 jufi 2880: <h3><font color="#e00000">Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 2881:
1.200 niklas 2882: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2883:
1.247 jufi 2884: <ul>
2885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2886: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2887: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2888:
2889: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2890: <p>
2891:
1.247 jufi 2892: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2893:
2894: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2895:
1.247 jufi 2896: <ul>
2897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2898: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2899: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2900:
2901: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2902: <p>
2903:
1.247 jufi 2904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2905: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2906: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2907:
2908: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2909: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2910: <p>
2911:
1.247 jufi 2912: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2913:
2914: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2915:
1.247 jufi 2916: <ul>
2917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2918: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2919: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2920:
2921: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2922: <p>
2923:
1.247 jufi 2924: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2925:
1.102 niklas 2926: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2927:
1.247 jufi 2928: <ul>
2929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.103 niklas 2930: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2931: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2932:
2933: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2934: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2935: <p>
1.102 niklas 2936:
1.247 jufi 2937: </ul>
1.102 niklas 2938:
1.84 niklas 2939: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2940:
1.247 jufi 2941: <ul>
2942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.84 niklas 2943: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2944: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2945:
2946: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2947: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2948: <p>
1.84 niklas 2949:
1.247 jufi 2950: </ul>
1.84 niklas 2951:
1.69 deraadt 2952: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2953:
1.247 jufi 2954: <ul>
2955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2956: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2957: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2958:
1.222 miod 2959: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
1.1 deraadt 2960: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2961: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2962: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2963:
1.247 jufi 2964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2965: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2966: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2967: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2968: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2969:
1.20 louis 2970: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2971: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2972: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2973: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2974: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2975:
1.247 jufi 2976: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2977:
1.113 naddy 2978: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2979: <a name=fi></a>
1.247 jufi 2980: <h3><font color="#e00000">Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
1.202 jufi 2981:
2982:
2983: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2984: <ul>
1.202 jufi 2985:
1.247 jufi 2986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.202 jufi 2987: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2988: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2989:
2990: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2991: will be removed from OpenBSD.
1.247 jufi 2992: </ul>
1.202 jufi 2993:
2994: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2995: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2996:
1.247 jufi 2997: <h3><font color="#e00000">Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 2998:
2999:
1.170 louis 3000: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3001: <ul>
1.170 louis 3002:
1.247 jufi 3003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.170 louis 3004: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
3005: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3006: </strong></font><br>
3007:
3008: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3009: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3010: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3011: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3012: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3013: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3014: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.170 louis 3015: <p>
1.247 jufi 3016: </ul>
1.170 louis 3017:
1.69 deraadt 3018: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3019: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3020:
1.247 jufi 3021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.135 ericj 3022: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 3023: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 3024: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 3025:
3026: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3027: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3028: translating and reprinting articles from
3029: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 3030: <p>
1.247 jufi 3031: </ul>
1.20 louis 3032:
1.113 naddy 3033: <hr>
3034: <a name=de></a>
1.247 jufi 3035: <h3><font color="#e00000">Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
1.50 louis 3036:
1.246 jufi 3037: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3038: <ul>
3039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3040: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
3041: December 04, 2002
3042: </strong></font><br>
3043: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
3044: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3045: <p>
1.247 jufi 3046: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3047:
1.151 louis 3048: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3049: <ul>
1.151 louis 3050:
1.247 jufi 3051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.151 louis 3052: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3053: </strong></font><br>
3054:
3055: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3056: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3057: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3058: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3059: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3060: <p>
1.247 jufi 3061: </ul>
1.151 louis 3062:
1.72 louis 3063: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3064: <ul>
1.72 louis 3065:
1.247 jufi 3066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.109 reinhard 3067: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 3068: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 3069: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 3070:
1.101 jufi 3071: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 3072: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3073: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 3074: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 3075: Giving way to
3076: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3077: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3078: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3079: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 3080: <p>
1.247 jufi 3081: </ul>
1.72 louis 3082:
1.69 deraadt 3083: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3084: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3085:
1.247 jufi 3086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3087: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 3088: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 3089: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 3090:
3091: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3092: <p>
1.247 jufi 3093: </ul>
1.112 naddy 3094:
1.50 louis 3095:
1.113 naddy 3096: <hr>
3097: <a name=ru></a>
1.247 jufi 3098: <h3><font color="#e00000">Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
1.56 deraadt 3099:
1.69 deraadt 3100: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3101: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3102:
1.247 jufi 3103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.98 deraadt 3104: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 3105: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
1.113 naddy 3106: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 3107:
3108: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 3109: <p>
1.247 jufi 3110: </ul>
1.62 form 3111:
1.69 deraadt 3112: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3113: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3114:
1.247 jufi 3115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.98 deraadt 3116: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 3117: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
1.113 naddy 3118: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 3119:
1.59 form 3120: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 3121: <p>
1.112 naddy 3122:
1.247 jufi 3123: </ul>
1.112 naddy 3124:
1.113 naddy 3125: <hr>
3126: <a name=pl></a>
1.247 jufi 3127: <h3><font color="#e00000">Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
3128: <ul>
1.56 deraadt 3129:
1.247 jufi 3130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.129 louis 3131: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
3132: Radio, August 2, 2000
3133: </strong></font><br>
3134:
3135: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 3136: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 3137: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3138: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3139: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3140: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3141: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3142: <p>
3143:
1.247 jufi 3144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3145: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3146: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
3147: January 2000
1.113 naddy 3148: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3149:
3150: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3151: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3152: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3153: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3154: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3155: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.247 jufi 3156: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
1.113 naddy 3157: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 3158: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3159: with the translation. For the full text, see the
3160: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
3161: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 3162: <p>
1.247 jufi 3163: </ul>
1.56 deraadt 3164:
1.113 naddy 3165: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3166: <a name=es></a>
1.247 jufi 3167: <h3><font color="#e00000">Spanish press coverage (in Spanish)</font></h3><p>
1.216 horacio 3168:
3169: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3170: <ul>
1.216 horacio 3171:
1.247 jufi 3172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.216 horacio 3173: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3174: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3175: </strong></font><br>
3176:
3177: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1.217 jufi 3178: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1.216 horacio 3179: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
3180: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
3181: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3182: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1.247 jufi 3183: A
1.216 horacio 3184: Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3185: <p>
1.247 jufi 3186: </ul>
1.216 horacio 3187:
1.252 miod 3188: <hr>
3189: <a name=fr></a>
3190: <h3><font color="#e00000">French press coverage (in French)</font></h3><p>
3191:
3192: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3193: <ul>
3194:
3195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3196: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">OpenBSD ne
3197: désarme pas</a>, Libroscope interview, Marc 19, 2003
3198: </strong></font><br>
3199:
3200: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3201: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3202: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3203: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3204: <p>
3205: </ul>
3206:
1.216 horacio 3207:
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