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1.18 deraadt 14: <h2><font color=#e00000>Media Coverage</strong><hr></h2>
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1.18 deraadt 16: <h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
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1.29 ! louis 19: <li><strong>
! 20: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
! 21: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999.<br>
! 22: </strong></font><p>
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! 24: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
! 25: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
! 26: with the
! 27: town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his terminal:
! 28: <blockquote>
! 29: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
! 30: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
! 31: <br>
! 32: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
! 33: </code>
! 34: </blockquote>
! 35: <p>
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1.16 louis 37: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.28 deraadt 38: <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.<br>
39: <li><a href="http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/28/ms.security.idg/index.html">Microsoft: Bad security, or bad press?</a>, CNN, Sept. 28, 1999.
1.24 deraadt 40: </strong></font><p>
41:
42: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
43: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 44: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.25 deraadt 45: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 46:
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1.19 louis 48: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg183.htm">Open source has roots in the Net</a>, USA Today, Sept. 20, 1999.
49: </strong></font><p>
50:
51: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
52: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
53: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
54: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
55: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
56: operating system in the world."<p>
57: <p>
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1.16 louis 60: <a href="http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/business/Even_better_than_Linux+.shtml">Even better than Linux</a>, Boston Globe, Sept 16, 1999.
61: </strong></font><p>
62:
63: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
64: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
65: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
66: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not).<p>
67: <p>
68:
1.1 deraadt 69: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.14 louis 70: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idg_frames/english/content.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.idg.com.au%2FCWT1997.nsf%2FHome%2Bpage%2F83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41%3FOpenDocument&return=%2fidg_frames%2fenglish%2ffeatures%2ehtml">Microsoft, Linux to become duopoly?</a>,
71: ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.</strong></font><p>
72:
73: Lead developer Theo de Raadt was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User
74: Group (AUUG) meeting in Melbourne.<p>
75: <p>
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1.21 louis 78: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
79: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999.
80: </strong></font><p>
81:
1.23 louis 82: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
83: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
84: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
85: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
86: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.22 deraadt 87: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
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1.17 deraadt 90: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 91: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
92: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999.</strong></font><p>
93:
94: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
95: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
96: of OpenBSD.<p>
97: <p>
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1.8 deraadt 100: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 101: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
102: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.8 deraadt 103:
104: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
105: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 106: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
107: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
108: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
109: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
110: way down the page).
1.8 deraadt 111: <p>
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1.3 deraadt 114: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.10 deraadt 115: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
116: National Post, May 25, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.3 deraadt 117:
1.20 louis 118: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
119: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.3 deraadt 120: <p>
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1.6 deraadt 123: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.20 louis 124: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.6 deraadt 125:
126: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
127: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
128: available."
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1.23 louis 132: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
133:
134: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
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137: <a href="">Safe and friendly read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>,
138: DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
139:
140: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
141: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
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1.2 deraadt 144: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.10 deraadt 145: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.2 deraadt 146:
147: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
148: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
149: <p>
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1.2 deraadt 152: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.11 ericj 153: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 154: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
155: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 156:
157: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
158: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
159: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
160: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
161: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
162: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
163: <p>
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1.15 louis 166: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
167: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
168: February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
169:
170: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
171: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
172: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
173: over to OpenBSD.
174: <p>
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1.1 deraadt 177: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
178: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
179: February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
180:
181: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
182: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
183: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
184: columns."
185: <p>
186:
1.2 deraadt 187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
188: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
189: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998.
190: </strong></font><p>
191:
192: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
193: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
194: Implementation, including a brief interview with
195: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.1 deraadt 196: <p>
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199: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.10 deraadt 200: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><p>
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202: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
203: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
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207: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.10 deraadt 208: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 209:
210: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
211: OpenBSD is.
212: <p>
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214: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
215: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.5 ian 216: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
217: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
218: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.10 deraadt 219: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81.</strong></font><p>
1.5 ian 220:
221: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
222: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
223: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
224: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
225: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.1 deraadt 226: <p>
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229: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
230: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
231: July, 1998.</strong></font><p>
232:
233: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
234: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
235: <p>
236:
237: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
238: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96. Paper edition only.</strong></font><p>
1.18 deraadt 239: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
240: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
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1.18 deraadt 247: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in swedish)</font></h3><p>
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1.1 deraadt 250: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
251: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.10 deraadt 252: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 253:
254: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
255: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
256: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
257: <p>
258:
259: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
260: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 261: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 262: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 263: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998.</strong></font><p>
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1.20 louis 265: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
266: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 267: explains the licensing issues and points to our
268: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
269: <p>
270:
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1.20 louis 274: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
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279: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/bsd/index.html">BSD Magazine</a>,
280: Sept. 28, 1999
281: </strong></font><p>
282:
283: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
284: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
285: translating and reprinting articles from
286: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
287: <p>
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