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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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1.16 louis 18:
1.34 ! beck 19: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href=http://http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/991006/ny_ntwrk_s_1.html>Company Press Release</a>,
! 20: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
! 21: </strong></font><p>
! 22:
! 23: Network Security Technologies announces commercial support services for
! 24: OpenBSD.
! 25:
1.30 deraadt 26: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href=http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/technology/stories/990930/2929913.html>Calgarian heads team ensuring OpenBSD security</a>,
1.32 louis 27: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999.
1.30 deraadt 28: </strong></font><p>
1.32 louis 29:
30: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
31: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
32: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 33:
1.29 louis 34: <li><strong>
35: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
36: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999.<br>
37: </strong></font><p>
38:
39: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
40: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
41: with the
42: town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his terminal:
43: <blockquote>
44: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
45: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
46: <br>
47: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
48: </code>
49: </blockquote>
50: <p>
51:
1.16 louis 52: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.28 deraadt 53: <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>
54: <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 55: </strong></font><p>
56:
57: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
58: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 59: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.25 deraadt 60: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 61:
62: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.19 louis 63: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg183.htm">Open source has roots in the Net</a>, USA Today, Sept. 20, 1999.
64: </strong></font><p>
65:
66: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
67: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
68: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
69: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
70: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
71: operating system in the world."<p>
72: <p>
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74: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.16 louis 75: <a href="http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/business/Even_better_than_Linux+.shtml">Even better than Linux</a>, Boston Globe, Sept 16, 1999.
76: </strong></font><p>
77:
78: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
79: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
80: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
81: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not).<p>
82: <p>
83:
1.1 deraadt 84: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.14 louis 85: <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>,
86: ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.</strong></font><p>
87:
88: Lead developer Theo de Raadt was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User
89: Group (AUUG) meeting in Melbourne.<p>
90: <p>
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92: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 93: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
94: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999.
95: </strong></font><p>
96:
1.23 louis 97: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
98: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
99: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
100: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
101: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.22 deraadt 102: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 103:
104: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 105: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 106: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
107: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999.</strong></font><p>
108:
109: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
110: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
111: of OpenBSD.<p>
112: <p>
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114: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 115: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 116: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
117: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.8 deraadt 118:
119: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
120: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 121: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
122: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
123: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
124: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
125: way down the page).
1.8 deraadt 126: <p>
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128: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.3 deraadt 129: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.10 deraadt 130: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
131: National Post, May 25, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.3 deraadt 132:
1.20 louis 133: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
134: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.3 deraadt 135: <p>
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137: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 138: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.20 louis 139: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.6 deraadt 140:
141: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
142: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
143: available."
144: <p>
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146: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 147: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
148: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><p>
149:
150: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
151: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
152: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
153: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
154: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
155: <p>
156:
157: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.23 louis 158: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
159:
160: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
161:
162: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
163: <a href="">Safe and friendly read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>,
164: DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
165:
166: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
167: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
168:
169: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 170: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.10 deraadt 171: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.2 deraadt 172:
173: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
174: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
175: <p>
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1.2 deraadt 178: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.11 ericj 179: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 180: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
181: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 182:
183: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
184: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
185: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
186: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
187: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
188: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
189: <p>
190:
191: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 192: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
193: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
194: February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
195:
196: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
197: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
198: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
199: over to OpenBSD.
200: <p>
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202: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 203: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
204: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
205: February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
206:
207: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
208: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
209: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
210: columns."
211: <p>
212:
1.2 deraadt 213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
214: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
215: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998.
216: </strong></font><p>
217:
218: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
219: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
220: Implementation, including a brief interview with
221: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.1 deraadt 222: <p>
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224: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
225: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.10 deraadt 226: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 227:
228: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
229: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
230: <p>
231:
232: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
233: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.10 deraadt 234: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 235:
236: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
237: OpenBSD is.
238: <p>
239:
240: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
241: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.5 ian 242: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
243: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
244: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.10 deraadt 245: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81.</strong></font><p>
1.5 ian 246:
247: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
248: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
249: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
250: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
251: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.1 deraadt 252: <p>
253:
254: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
255: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
256: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
257: July, 1998.</strong></font><p>
258:
259: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
260: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
261: <p>
262:
263: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
264: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96. Paper edition only.</strong></font><p>
1.18 deraadt 265: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
266: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.1 deraadt 267: <p>
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1.18 deraadt 273: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in swedish)</font></h3><p>
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1.1 deraadt 276: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
277: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.10 deraadt 278: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 279:
280: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
281: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
282: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
283: <p>
284:
285: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
286: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 287: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 288: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 289: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 290:
1.20 louis 291: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
292: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 293: explains the licensing issues and points to our
294: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
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1.20 louis 300: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
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304: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
305: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/bsd/index.html">BSD Magazine</a>,
306: Sept. 28, 1999
307: </strong></font><p>
308:
309: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
310: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
311: translating and reprinting articles from
312: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
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