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1.247 jufi 16: <h2><font color="#e00000">Media Coverage</font></h2>
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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.356 jose 19: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 20: <ul>
21:
22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 ! henning 23: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
! 24: </strong></font><br>
! 25: Interview with Theo about funding, hackathons, and security in OpenBSD.
! 26: <p>
! 27:
! 28: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 29: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
30: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
31: Page 58, eWeek,
32: June 2, 2003.
33: </strong></font><br>
34: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
35: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
36: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
37: been addressed in -current.
38: <p>
39:
1.356 jose 40: </ul>
41:
42: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
43: <ul>
44:
1.355 jose 45: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 46: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
47: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
48: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
49: </strong></font><br>
50: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
51: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
52: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
53: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
54: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
55: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
56: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
57: <p>
58:
59: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 60: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
61: Beyond Linux</a>,
62: InfoWorld,
63: May 23, 2003.
64: </strong></font><br>
65: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
66: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
67: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
68: compared to the GPL.
69: <p>
70:
71: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 72: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
73: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
74: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 75: May 17, 2003.
76: </strong></font><br>
77: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
78: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
79: the business section and half of another page inside
80: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
81: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
82: in talking about the project's history and goals.
83: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
84: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
85: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
86: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 87: <br>
88: This article can also be found online at:
89: <ul>
90: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
91: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
92: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
93: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
94: May 17, 2003
95: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 96: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
97: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
98: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
99: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
100: Montreal Gazette,
101: May 21, 2003
102: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 103: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 104: <p>
1.346 ian 105:
106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 107: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 108: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 109: May 7, 2003.
110: </strong></font><br>
111: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
112: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
113: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
114: <p>
115:
116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 117: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
118: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
119: OsOpinion,
120: May 6, 2003.
121: </strong></font><br>
122: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
123: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
124: <br>
125: This article can also be found online at:
126: <ul>
127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
128: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
129: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
130: NewsFactor Network.
131: </strong></font>
132: </ul>
133: <p>
134:
135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 136: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 137: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
138: ITBusiness,
139: May 2, 2003.
140: </strong></font><br>
141: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
142: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
143: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
144: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
145: <p>
146:
147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 148: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
149: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
150: InfoWorld,
151: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 152: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 153: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
154: <br>
155: This article can also be found online at:
156: <ul>
157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
158: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
159: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
160: IDG Singapore.
161: </strong></font>
162: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 163: <p>
164:
1.339 jose 165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
166: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
167: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 168: ZDNet,
169: May 1, 2003.
170: </strong></font><br>
171: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 172: someone using parts from previous articles.
173: <br>
1.341 deraadt 174: This article can also be found online at:
175: <ul>
176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
177: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
178: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
179: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 180: </strong></font>
181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
182: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
183: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
184: CNET News.com.
185: </strong></font>
186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
187: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
188: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
189: ZDNet UK.
190: </strong></font>
191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
192: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
193: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
194: Help Net Security, Croatia.
195: </strong></font>
196: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 197: <p>
1.339 jose 198:
1.341 deraadt 199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 200: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 201: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
202: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
203: May 1, 2003.
204: </strong></font><br>
205: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
206: that have been added
207: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
208: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
209: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 210: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 211: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
212: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
213: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 214: <p>
215:
216: </ul>
217:
1.253 ian 218: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
219: <ul>
1.255 ian 220:
1.260 ian 221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 222: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 223: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
224: TechRepublic,
225: April 28, 2003.
226: </strong></font><br>
227: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
228: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 229: work.<br>
230: Can also be found online at:
231: <ul>
232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
233: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
234: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
235: ZDNet UK.
236: </strong></font>
237: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 238: <p>
239:
240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 241: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
242: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
243: IDG,
244: April 24, 2003.
245: </strong></font><br>
246: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
247: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
248: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
249: Can also be found online at:
250: <ul>
251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
252: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
253: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 254: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 255: </strong></font>
256: </ul>
257: <p>
258:
259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
260: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 261: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 262: Slate,
263: April 24, 2003.
264: </strong></font><br>
265: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
266: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
267: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
268: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
269: <p>
270:
271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 272: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
273: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
274: April 24, 2003.
275: </strong></font><br>
276: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
277: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
278: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
279: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
280: <p>
281:
282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 283: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
284: April 24, 2003.
285: </strong></font><br>
286: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
287: the free software community".
288: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
289: other articles.
290: <p>
291:
292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 293: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/24/politics/24HACK.html?ex=1051761600&en=87a56d5c962b64e4&ei=5062">Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1.324 ian 294: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
295: </strong></font><br>
296: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
297: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
298: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
299: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
300: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
301: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
302: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
303: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
304: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
305: <br/>
306: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
307: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
308: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
309: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 310: <br>
311: Can also be found online at:
312: <ul>
313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
314: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
315: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
316: Common Dreams NewsCenter
317: </strong></font>
318: </ul>
1.324 ian 319: <p>
320:
321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
322: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
323: Wired, April 24, 2003.
324: </strong></font><br>
325: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
326: article above.
327: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
328: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
329: wasting them."
1.332 ian 330: <br>
331: Can also be found online at:
332: <ul>
333: <li>
334: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
335: </strong></font>
336: </ul>
1.324 ian 337: <p>
338:
339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 340: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
341: </strong></font><br>
342: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
343: <p>
344:
345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 346: <a href="http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/04/23/3ea643207f30d">Federal funding abruptly cut for research project</a>, dailypennsylvanian.com, April 23, 2003.
347: </strong></font><br>
348: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
349: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
350: <p>
351:
352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 353: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
354: April 23, 2003.
355: </strong></font><br>
356: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
357: <p>
358:
359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 360: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 361: April 22, 2003.
362: </strong></font><br>
363: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
364: <p>
365:
366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 367: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
368: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
369: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 370: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 371: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
372: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
373: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
374: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
375: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
376: Can also be found online at:
377: <ul>
378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
379: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 380: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
381: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 382: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
384: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 385: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
386: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 387: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 388: </ul>
389: <p>
390:
391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 392: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
393: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 394: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 395: </strong></font><br>
396: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 397: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
398: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
399: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
400: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
401: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
402: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 403: <p>
404:
405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 406: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
407: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 408: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
409: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 410: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
411: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
412: at UPenn and DARPA.
413: <p>
414:
415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.315 deraadt 416: [FRENCH] <a href="http://www.weblmi.com/news_store/2003_04_18_La_DARPA_coupe_les_v_32/News_view">La DARPA coupe les vivres a OpenBSD</a>, Le Monde, France
417: April 18, 2003.
418: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 419: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 420: <p>
421:
422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 423: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-18.04.03-002/">Aus der Traum: Keine US-Gelder für OpenBSD</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
1.306 deraadt 424: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 425: </strong></font><br>
426: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
427: <p>
428:
429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 430: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
431: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
432: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 433: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 434: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
435: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
436: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
437: <p>
438:
439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 440: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
441: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 442: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 443: </strong></font><br>
444: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
445: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
446: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 447: American century.
1.267 deraadt 448: <p>
449:
450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 451: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
452: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 453: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 454: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 455: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
456: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
457: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
458: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
459: Can also be found online at:
460: <ul>
461: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
462: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 463: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 464: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 465: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 466: <p>
467:
468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 469: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 470: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 471: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 472: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 473: </strong></font><br>
474: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 475: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
476: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
477: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
478: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 479:
480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
481: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
482: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
483: New York Times.
484: </strong></font>(free registration required)
485:
1.273 deraadt 486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
487: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 488: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 489: ABC News.
490: </strong></font>
491:
492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 493: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 494: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 495: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 496: </strong></font>
497:
498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 499: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 500: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 501: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 502: </strong></font>
503:
504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 505: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
506: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 507: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 508: </strong></font>
509:
510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 511: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 512: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 513: Times Daily, AL.
514: </strong></font>
515:
516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
517: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
518: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
519: Boston.com, MA.
520: </strong></font>
521:
522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 523: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 524: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 525: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
526: </strong></font>
527:
528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 529: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
530: [Article was pulled]</a>
531: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 532: </strong></font>
533:
534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
535: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
536: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
537: Infoshop News.
538: </strong></font>
539:
540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
541: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
542: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
543: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
544: </strong></font>
545:
546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 547: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
548: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
549: Raleigh News, NC.
550: </strong></font>
551:
552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 553: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 554: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
555: Napa News, CA.
556: </strong></font>
557:
558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 559: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 560: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
561: NEPA News, PA.
562: </strong></font>
563:
564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
565: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
566: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
567: Wired News.
568: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 569: <br>
570: <li>
1.333 deraadt 571: <font color="#009000"><strong>
572: [JAPANESE]
573: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
574: Wired News Japan</a>
575: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 576:
1.271 deraadt 577: </ul>
578: <p>
1.272 deraadt 579: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
580: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 581: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
582: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
583: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
584: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
585: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
586: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 587: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 588: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
589: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
590: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 591: <p>
592: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 593:
594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 595: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 596: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
597: Indianapolis Star, IN.
598: </strong></font>
599:
600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 601: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
602: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
603: Miami Herald, FL.
604: </strong></font>
605:
606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 607: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 608: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
609: </strong></font>
610:
611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
612: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 613: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 614: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 615: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 616:
617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
618: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
619: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
620: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
621: ABC News.
622: </strong></font>
623:
1.276 deraadt 624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
625: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 626: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 627: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 628: </strong></font>
629:
1.286 dhartmei 630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 631: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 632: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
633: Wilmington Star, NC.
634: </strong></font>
635:
1.300 jose 636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
637: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
638: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
639: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
640: </strong></font>
641:
1.309 jose 642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
643: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
644: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
645: Globe Technology.
646: </strong></font>
647:
1.263 deraadt 648: </ul>
1.262 beck 649: <p>
650:
651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 652: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
653: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 654: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 655: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 656: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 657: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
658: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
659: <p>
660:
661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 662: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
663: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
664: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 665: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 666: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
667: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
668: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
669: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
670: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
671: and simply restates other press reports.
672: <p>
673:
674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 675: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
676: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
677: OS News, April 18, 2003.
678: </strong></font><br>
679: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
680: <p>
681:
682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 683: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
684: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 685: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 686: </strong></font><br>
687: Another report on the DARPA funding.
688: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
689: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
690: <p>
691:
692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 693: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
694: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
695: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
696: April 17, 2003.
697: </strong></font><br>
698: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
699: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
700: Tech Anthems</a>
701: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
702: 4 so far.
703: <p>
704:
705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 706: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
707: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 708: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 709: </strong></font><br>
710: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
711: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
712: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
713: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
714: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
715: Goes on to say:
716: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
717: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
718: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
719: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 720: This article is also found online at:
721: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
723: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
724: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
725: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 726: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
728: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
729: ZDnet</a>,
730: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 731: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
733: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
734: ZDnet Australia</a>,
735: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 736: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 737: </ul>
1.260 ian 738: <p>
1.279 deraadt 739:
1.260 ian 740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 741: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 742: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 743: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 744: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 745: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 746: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
747: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
748: without notice or justification.
749: <p>
750:
751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 752: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 753: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 754: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 755: </strong></font><br>
756: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
757: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 758: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 759: effective today, without any warning..."
760: <p>
1.257 ian 761:
762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 763: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
764: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 765: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 766: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 767: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
768: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
769: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
770: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
771: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 772: <p>
773:
774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 775: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
776: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 777: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 778: </strong></font><br>
779: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
780: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
781: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
782: quoting two of them:
783: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
784: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
785: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
786: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
787: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
788: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
789: <p>
790:
1.255 ian 791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 792: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
793: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 794: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 795: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 796: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 797: <p>
798:
799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 800: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-13.04.03-000/">OpenBSD mit neuem Sicherheitskonzept</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
1.306 deraadt 801: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 802: </strong></font><br>
803: New security concepts in OpenBSD
804: <p>
805:
806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 807: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
808: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 809: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 810: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 811: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 812: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
813: security experts for more than three decades."
814: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
815: <p>
1.261 ian 816:
1.254 drahn 817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 818: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 819: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 820: </strong></font><br>
821: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
822: <p>
823:
824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 825: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
826: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
827: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
828: </strong></font><br>
829: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
830: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
831: discussion OpenBSD's path.
832: <p>
833:
834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 835: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
836: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 837: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 838: </strong></font><br>
839: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
840: from US DARPA.
841: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
842: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
843: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
844: the BSD license.
845: <p>
846: </ul>
847:
1.251 ian 848: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
849: <ul>
850:
851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 852: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
853: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
854: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
855: </strong></font><br>
856:
857: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
858: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
859: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
860: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
861: <p>
862:
863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 864: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
865: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 866: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 867: </strong></font><br>
868: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
869: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
870: Mentions
871: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
872: and
873: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
874: programs.
875: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 876: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 877: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
878: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
879: <p>
1.325 ian 880: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
881: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 882:
883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
884: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
885: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
886: </strong></font><br>
887: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
888: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
889: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
890: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
891: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
892: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
893: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
894: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
895: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
896: put into service."
897: <p>
898: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
899: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
900: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
901: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
902: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
903: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
904: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
905: computers with security features."
906: <p>
1.329 ian 907:
908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
909: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
910: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
911: Slate,
912: March 3, 2003.
913: </strong></font><br>
914: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
915: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
916: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
917: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
918: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
919: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
920: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
921: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
922: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
923: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
924: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
925: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
926: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
927: of more secure open-source solutions like
928: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
929: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
930: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
931: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
932: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
933: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
934: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
935: the Beltway."
936: <p>
1.251 ian 937: </ul>
938:
1.249 jufi 939: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
940: <ul>
941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
942: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
943: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 944: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 945: </strong></font><br>
946: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
947: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 948: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 949: <p>
1.334 ian 950:
951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
952: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
953: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
954: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
955: </strong></font><br>
956: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
957: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
958: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
959: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
960: "... the hypothetical question ...
961: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
962: <br>
963: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
964: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
965: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
966: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
967: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
968: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 969: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 970: support network security.
971: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
972: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
973: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
974: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
975: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
976: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
977: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
978: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
979: <br>
980: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
981: <p>
982:
1.249 jufi 983: </ul>
984:
1.246 jufi 985: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 986: <ul>
1.246 jufi 987:
1.247 jufi 988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 989: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 990: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
991: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 992: </strong></font><br>
993: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
994: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
995: <p>
996:
1.247 jufi 997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 998: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
999: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1000: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
1001: </strong></font><br>
1002: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
1003: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
1004: <p>
1005:
1006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1007: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1008: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1009: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1010: </strong></font><br>
1011: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
1012: in their annual OpenHack security test.
1013: <p>
1.247 jufi 1014: </ul>
1.246 jufi 1015:
1.244 jufi 1016: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1017: <ul>
1.246 jufi 1018:
1.247 jufi 1019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 1020: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
1021: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
1022: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1023: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 1024: </strong></font><br>
1025: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
1026: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
1027: md5 digests.
1028: <p>
1029:
1.247 jufi 1030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1031: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 1032: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
1033: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1034: </strong></font><br>
1035: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
1036: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
1037: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
1038: right the first time."
1039: <p>
1.247 jufi 1040: </ul>
1.244 jufi 1041:
1042:
1043: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1044: <ul>
1.244 jufi 1045:
1.247 jufi 1046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1047: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1048: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
1049: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1050: </strong></font><br>
1051: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
1052: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1053: part 6</a>.
1054: <p>
1055:
1.247 jufi 1056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 1057: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1058: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
1059: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 1060: </strong></font><br>
1061: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
1062: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
1063: <p>
1.301 jose 1064:
1065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1066: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1067: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1068: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1069: </strong></font><br>
1070:
1071: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1072: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1073: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1074: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1075: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1076: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1077: <i>Here's the
1078: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1079: <p>
1.247 jufi 1080: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1081:
1082: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1083: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1084:
1.247 jufi 1085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1086: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1087: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
1088: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1089: </strong></font><br>
1090: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1091: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1092: <p>
1093:
1.247 jufi 1094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1095: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1096: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1097: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1098: </strong></font><br>
1099: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1100: this time using pf.
1101: <p>
1.247 jufi 1102: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1103:
1104: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1105: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1106:
1.247 jufi 1107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1108: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1109: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1110: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1111: </strong></font><br>
1112: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1113: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1114: their rotation.
1115: <p>
1116:
1.247 jufi 1117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1118: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1119: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1120: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1121: </strong></font><br>
1122: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1123: <p>
1.247 jufi 1124: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1125:
1.239 jufi 1126: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1127: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1128:
1.247 jufi 1129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1130: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1131: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1132: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1133: </strong></font><br>
1134: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1135: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1136: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1137: <p>
1138:
1.247 jufi 1139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1140: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1141: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1142: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1143: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1144: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1145: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1146: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1147: <p>
1.247 jufi 1148: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1149:
1.235 lebel 1150: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1151: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1152:
1.239 jufi 1153:
1.247 jufi 1154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1155: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1156: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1157: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1158: </strong></font><br>
1159: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1160: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1161: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1162: <p>
1.301 jose 1163:
1.247 jufi 1164: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1165:
1.228 horacio 1166: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1167: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1168:
1.247 jufi 1169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1170: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1171: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1172: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1173: </strong></font><br>
1174: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1175: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1176: <p>
1177:
1.247 jufi 1178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1179: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1180: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1181: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1182: </strong></font><br>
1183: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1184: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1185: <p>
1186:
1.247 jufi 1187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1188: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1189: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1190: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1191: </strong></font><br>
1192: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1193: on the desktop of his parents.
1194: <p>
1195:
1.247 jufi 1196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1197: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1198: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1199: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1200: </strong></font><br>
1201: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1202: using IPFilter.
1203:
1204: <p>
1205:
1.247 jufi 1206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1207: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1208: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1209: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1210: </strong></font><br>
1211: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1212: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1213: perspectives of the four OS.
1214: <br>
1215: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1216: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1217: <p>
1218:
1.247 jufi 1219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1220: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1221: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1222: software and security</a>,
1223: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1224: </strong></font><br>
1225:
1226: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1227: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1228: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1229: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1230: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1231: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1232: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1233: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1234: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1235: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1236: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1237: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1238: <p>
1.247 jufi 1239: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1240:
1.225 horacio 1241: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1242: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1243:
1.247 jufi 1244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1245: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1246: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1247: Interview</a>,
1248: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1249: </strong></font><br>
1250:
1251: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1252: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1253: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1254: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1255: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1256: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1257: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1258: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1259: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1260: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1261: of choice.
1262: <p>
1.247 jufi 1263: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1264:
1265: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1266: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1267:
1.247 jufi 1268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1269: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1270: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1271: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1272: </strong></font><br>
1273:
1274: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1275: <p>
1276:
1.247 jufi 1277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1278: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1279: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1280: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1281: </strong></font><br>
1282:
1283: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1284: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1285: <p>
1.247 jufi 1286: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1287:
1.218 horacio 1288: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1289: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1290:
1.247 jufi 1291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1292: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 1293: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1294: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1295: </strong></font><br>
1296:
1297: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1298: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1299: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1300: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1301: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1302: subjects. Worth a read.
1303: <p>
1304:
1305:
1.247 jufi 1306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1307: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1308: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1309: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1310: </strong></font><br>
1311:
1312: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1313: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1314: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1315: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1316: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1317: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1318: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1319: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1320: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1321: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1322: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1323: on other operating systems.<br>
1324: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1325: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1326: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1327: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1328: <p>
1329:
1.247 jufi 1330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1331: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1332: Operating System 2010</a>,
1333: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1334: </strong></font><br>
1335:
1336: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1337: covering the level of software integration into the core
1338: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1339: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1340: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1341: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1342: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1343: <p>
1344:
1.247 jufi 1345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1346: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1347: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1348: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1349: </strong></font><br>
1350:
1351: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1352: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1353: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1354: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1355: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1356: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1357: <p>
1.247 jufi 1358: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1359:
1.210 jufi 1360: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1361: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1362:
1.247 jufi 1363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1364: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1365: Already a Contender</a>,
1366: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1367: </strong></font><br>
1368:
1369: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1370: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1371: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1372: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1373: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1374: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1375: <p>
1376:
1.247 jufi 1377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1378: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1379: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1380: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1381: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1382:
1.224 horacio 1383: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1384: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1385: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1386: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1387: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1388: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1389: <p>
1.247 jufi 1390: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1391:
1392: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1393: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1394:
1.247 jufi 1395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1396: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1397: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1398: Division</a>,
1399: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1400: </strong></font><br>
1401:
1402: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1403: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1404: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1405: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1406: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1407: investment</em>.<br>
1408: The implementation details can be seen on their
1409: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1410: <p>
1411:
1.247 jufi 1412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1413: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1414: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1415: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1416: </strong></font><br>
1417:
1418: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1419: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1420: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1421: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1422: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1423: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1424: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1425: <p>
1426:
1427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1428: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1429: Thinking about Security</a>,
1430: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1431: </strong></font><br>
1432:
1433: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1434: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1435: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1436: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1437: to time.<br>
1438: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1439: system and just the most secure system.
1440: <p>
1441:
1.247 jufi 1442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1443: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1444: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1445: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1446: </strong></font><br>
1447:
1448: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1449: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1450: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1451: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1452: choice:<br>
1453: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1454: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1455: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1456: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1457: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1458: network security devices and as such must be well
1459: armored."</em><br>
1460: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1461: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1462: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1463: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1464: <br>
1465: Bravo!
1466: <p>
1.247 jufi 1467: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1468:
1.207 ian 1469: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1470: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1471:
1.247 jufi 1472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1473: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1474: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1475: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1476:
1.207 ian 1477: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1478: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1479: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1480: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1481: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1482: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1483: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1484: <p>
1.247 jufi 1485: </ul>
1.207 ian 1486:
1.194 jufi 1487: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1488: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1489:
1.247 jufi 1490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1491: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1492: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1493: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1494: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1495:
1.240 miod 1496: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1497: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1498: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1499: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1500: <p>
1501:
1.247 jufi 1502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1503: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1504: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1505: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1506:
1507: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1508: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1509: <p>
1510:
1511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1512: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1513: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1514: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1515:
1516: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1517: <p>
1518:
1519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1520: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1521: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1522: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1523: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1524:
1.240 miod 1525: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1526: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1527: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1528: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1529: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1530: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1531: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1532: <br>
1533: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1534: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1535: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1536: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1537: <p>
1538:
1.247 jufi 1539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1540: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1541: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1542: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1543: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1544:
1.194 jufi 1545: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1546: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1547: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1548: <br>
1549: The new
1550: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1551: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1552: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1553: <p>
1.247 jufi 1554: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1555:
1.190 horacio 1556: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1557: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1558:
1.247 jufi 1559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1560:
1561: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1562: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1563:
1.301 jose 1564:
1.191 jufi 1565: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1566: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1567:
1568: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1569: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1570:
1.212 horacio 1571: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1572: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1573: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1574:
1.211 horacio 1575: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1576: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1577: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1578:
1.247 jufi 1579: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1580: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1581:
1.247 jufi 1582: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1583: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1584:
1.212 horacio 1585: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1586: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1587: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1588:
1589: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1590: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1591:
1592: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1593: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1594:
1.301 jose 1595: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1596: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1597:
1.191 jufi 1598: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1599: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1600:
1601: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1602: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1603:
1.192 jufi 1604: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1605: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1606: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1607:
1.193 deraadt 1608: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
1609: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 1610: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 1611:
1.247 jufi 1612: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 1613: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
1614:
1.247 jufi 1615: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 1616: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
1617: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
1618:
1.213 horacio 1619: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 1620: 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 1621: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
1622:
1.190 horacio 1623: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 1624: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
1625: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
1626: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
1627: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
1628: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
1629: <p>
1.190 horacio 1630:
1.247 jufi 1631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1632: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1633: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1634: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1635: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1636:
1.195 jufi 1637: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1638: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1639: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1640: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1641: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1642: <p>
1643:
1.247 jufi 1644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1645: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1646: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1647: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1648: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1649:
1.191 jufi 1650: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 1651: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
1652: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
1653: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
1654: <p>
1655:
1656: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1657: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1658: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1659: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
1660:
1661: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1662: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 1663: <p>
1.247 jufi 1664: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1665:
1.191 jufi 1666:
1.186 jufi 1667: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1668: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1669:
1.247 jufi 1670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1671: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1672: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1673: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1674: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1675:
1.188 jufi 1676: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1677: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1678: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1679: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1680: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1681: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1682: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1683: <p>
1684:
1.301 jose 1685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1686: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1687: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1688: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1689:
1690: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
1691: <p>
1.191 jufi 1692:
1.247 jufi 1693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1694: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1695: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1696: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1697: </strong></font><br>
1698:
1699: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1700: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1701: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1702: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1703: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1704: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1705: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1706: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1707: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1708: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1709: familiar?
1710: <p>
1.247 jufi 1711: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1712:
1.178 louis 1713: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1714: <ul>
1.178 louis 1715:
1.247 jufi 1716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1717: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1718: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1719: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1720: </strong></font><br>
1721:
1722: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1723: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1724: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1725: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1726: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1727: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1728: <p>
1729:
1.247 jufi 1730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1731: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1732: Open source under the hood</a>,
1733: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1734: </strong></font><br>
1735:
1736: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1737: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1738: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1739: <p>
1740:
1.247 jufi 1741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1742: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1743: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1744: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1745: </strong></font><br>
1746:
1747: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1748: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1749: <p>
1.247 jufi 1750: </ul>
1.179 louis 1751:
1.174 louis 1752:
1.175 louis 1753: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1754: <ul>
1.175 louis 1755:
1.247 jufi 1756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1757: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1758: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1759: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1760: </strong></font><br>
1761:
1762: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1763: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1764: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1765: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1766: <p>
1767:
1.247 jufi 1768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1769: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1770: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1771: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1772: </strong></font><br>
1773:
1774: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1775: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1776: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1777: <p>
1.247 jufi 1778: </ul>
1.175 louis 1779:
1.176 louis 1780:
1.172 mickey 1781: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1782: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1783:
1.247 jufi 1784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1785: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1786: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1787: </strong></font><br>
1788:
1789: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1790: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1791: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1792: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1793: <p>
1794:
1.247 jufi 1795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1796: <a
1.269 deraadt 1797: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1798: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1799: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1800: </strong></font><br>
1801:
1802: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1803: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1804: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1805: <p>
1806:
1.247 jufi 1807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1808: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1809: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1810: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1811: </strong></font><br>
1812:
1813: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1814: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1815: <p>
1816:
1.247 jufi 1817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1818: <a
1.269 deraadt 1819: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1820: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1821: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1822: </strong></font><br>
1823:
1824: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1825: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1826: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1827: our own Theo de Raadt.
1828: <p>
1829:
1.247 jufi 1830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1831: <a
1.269 deraadt 1832: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1833: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1834: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1835: </strong></font><br>
1836:
1837: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1838: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1839: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1840: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1841: shut down.]
1842: <p>
1843:
1.247 jufi 1844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1845: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1846: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1847: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1848: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1849: </strong></font><br>
1850:
1851: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1852: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1853: <p>
1.247 jufi 1854: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1855:
1.161 louis 1856: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1857: <ul>
1.161 louis 1858:
1.247 jufi 1859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1860: <a
1.269 deraadt 1861: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1862: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1863: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1864: </strong></font><br>
1865:
1866: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1867: by John Wolley
1868: <p>
1869:
1.247 jufi 1870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1871: <a
1.269 deraadt 1872: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1873: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1874: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1875: </strong></font><br>
1876:
1877: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1878: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1879: OpenBSD).
1880: <p>
1881:
1.247 jufi 1882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1883: <a
1.247 jufi 1884: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1885: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1886: </strong></font><br>
1887:
1888: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1889: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1890: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1891: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1892: and hindsight.
1893: <p>
1894:
1.247 jufi 1895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1896: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1897: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1898: </strong></font><br>
1899:
1900: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1901: <p>
1902:
1.247 jufi 1903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1904: <a
1.168 provos 1905: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1906: December 7, 2000
1907: </strong></font><br>
1908:
1909: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1910: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1911: us explain.
1912: <p>
1913:
1.247 jufi 1914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1915: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1916: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1917: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1918: December 6, 2000
1919: </strong></font><br>
1920:
1921: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1922: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1923: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1924: <p>
1925:
1.247 jufi 1926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1927: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
1928: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
1929: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1930: </strong></font><br>
1931:
1932: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1933: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1934: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1935: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1936: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1937: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1938: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1939: <p>
1940:
1941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1942: <a
1.226 horacio 1943: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1944: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1945: </strong></font><br>
1946:
1947: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1948: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1949: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1950: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1951: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1952: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1953: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1954: <p>
1.162 millert 1955:
1.247 jufi 1956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1957: <a
1.161 louis 1958: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1959: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1960: </strong></font><br>
1961:
1962: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1963: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1964: <p>
1965:
1.247 jufi 1966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1967: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1968: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1969: </strong></font><br>
1970:
1971: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1972: <p>
1973:
1974:
1.247 jufi 1975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1976: <a
1.226 horacio 1977: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1978: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1979: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1980: </strong></font><br>
1981:
1982: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1983: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1984: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1985: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1986: <p>
1.247 jufi 1987: </ul>
1.169 louis 1988:
1.158 louis 1989: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1990: <ul>
1.147 louis 1991:
1.247 jufi 1992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1993: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1994: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1995: </strong></font><br>
1996:
1997: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1998: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1999: <p>
2000:
1.247 jufi 2001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2002: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
2003: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
2004: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 2005: </strong></font><br>
2006: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
2007: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
2008: <p>
2009:
1.247 jufi 2010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2011: <a
2012: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
2013: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
2014: </strong></font><br>
2015:
2016: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
2017: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
2018: <p>
2019:
1.247 jufi 2020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2021: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 2022: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
2023: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 2024:
1.213 horacio 2025: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 2026: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
2027: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
2028: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
2029: <p>
1.215 horacio 2030:
1.247 jufi 2031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2032: <a
2033: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
2034: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
2035: </strong></font><br>
2036:
2037: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
2038: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
2039: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
2040: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
2041: much of the attitude too).
2042: <p>
1.161 louis 2043:
1.247 jufi 2044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2045: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2046: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 2047: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2048:
1.157 louis 2049: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
2050: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
2051: <p>
1.247 jufi 2052: </ul>
1.157 louis 2053:
2054: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2055: <ul>
1.157 louis 2056:
1.247 jufi 2057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2058: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2059: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 2060: </strong></font><br>
2061:
2062: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
2063: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
2064: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2065: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2066: <p>
2067:
1.247 jufi 2068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2069: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2070: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2071: </strong></font><br>
2072:
2073: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2074: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2075: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2076: it because they love coding...
2077: <p>
2078:
1.247 jufi 2079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2080: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2081: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2082: </strong></font><br>
2083:
2084: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2085: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2086: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2087: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2088: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2089: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2090: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2091: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2092: <p>
2093:
1.247 jufi 2094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2095: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2096: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2097: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2098: </strong></font><br>
2099:
2100: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2101: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2102: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2103: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2104: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2105: the pizza.
2106: <p>
2107:
1.247 jufi 2108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2109: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2110: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2111: </strong></font><br>
2112:
2113: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2114: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2115: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2116: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2117: problems.
2118: <p>
2119:
1.247 jufi 2120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2121: <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 2122: </strong></font><br>
2123:
1.222 miod 2124: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2125: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2126: - whether they like it or not.
2127: <p>
2128:
1.247 jufi 2129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2130: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2131: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2132: </strong></font><br>
2133:
2134: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2135: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2136: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2137: <p>
1.148 aaron 2138:
1.247 jufi 2139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2140: <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 2141: </strong></font><br>
2142:
2143: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2144: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2145: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2146: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2147: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2148: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2149: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2150: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2151: <p>
2152:
1.247 jufi 2153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2154: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2155: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2156: </strong></font><br>
2157:
2158: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2159: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2160: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2161: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2162: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2163: <p>
1.247 jufi 2164: </ul>
1.147 louis 2165:
1.138 louis 2166: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2167: <ul>
1.138 louis 2168:
1.247 jufi 2169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2170: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2171: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2172: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2173: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2174: </strong></font><br>
2175:
1.227 horacio 2176: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2177: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2178: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2179: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2180: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2181: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2182: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2183: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2184: <p>
2185:
1.247 jufi 2186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2187: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2188: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2189: </strong></font><br>
2190:
2191: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2192: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2193: groups, and even Linux.
2194: <p>
2195:
1.247 jufi 2196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2197: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2198: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2199: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2200: </strong></font><br>
2201:
2202: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2203: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2204: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2205: library after installing the OS.
2206: <p>
2207:
1.247 jufi 2208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2209: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2210: Sys Admin, September 2000
2211: </strong></font><br>
2212:
2213: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2214: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2215: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2216: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2217: (<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>,
2218: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2219: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2220: <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 2221: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2222: out of the system.
2223: <p>
2224:
1.247 jufi 2225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2226: <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
2227: </strong></font><br>
2228:
2229: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2230: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2231: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2232: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2233: the IP filtering and address translation.
2234: <p>
1.301 jose 2235:
2236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2237: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2238: </strong></font><br>
2239:
2240: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2241: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2242: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2243: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2244: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2245: <p>
1.247 jufi 2246: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2247:
1.131 louis 2248: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2249: <ul>
1.131 louis 2250:
1.247 jufi 2251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2252: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2253: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2254: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2255: </strong></font><br>
2256:
2257: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2258: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2259: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2260: <p>
2261:
1.247 jufi 2262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2263: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2264: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2265: </strong></font><br>
2266:
2267: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2268: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2269: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2270: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2271: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2272: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2273: note of"</i>.
2274: <p>
2275:
1.247 jufi 2276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2277: <a
1.247 jufi 2278: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2279: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2280: </strong></font><br>
2281:
2282: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2283: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2284: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2285: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2286: <p>
2287:
1.247 jufi 2288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2289: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2290: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2291: </strong></font><br>
2292:
2293: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2294: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2295: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2296: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2297: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2298: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2299: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2300: <p>
2301:
1.247 jufi 2302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2303: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2304: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2305: 2000
2306: </strong></font><br>
2307:
2308: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2309: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2310: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2311: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2312: against current industry practices.
2313: <p>
2314:
1.247 jufi 2315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2316: <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
2317: </strong></font><br>
2318:
2319: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2320: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2321: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2322: <p>
2323:
1.247 jufi 2324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2325: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2326: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2327: </strong></font><br>
2328:
2329: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2330: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2331: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2332: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2333: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2334: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2335: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2336: <p>
2337:
1.247 jufi 2338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2339: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2340: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2341: </strong></font><br>
2342:
2343: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2344: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2345: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2346: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2347: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2348: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2349: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2350: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2351: <p>
1.247 jufi 2352: </ul>
1.131 louis 2353:
1.118 louis 2354: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2355: <ul>
1.118 louis 2356:
1.247 jufi 2357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2358: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2359: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2360: </strong></font><br>
2361:
2362: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2363: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2364: about time. The article mentions that
2365: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2366: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2367: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2368: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2369: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2370: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2371: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2372: <p>
2373:
1.247 jufi 2374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2375: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2376: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2377: </strong></font><br>
2378:
2379: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2380: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2381: of OpenSSH.
2382: <p>
2383:
1.247 jufi 2384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2385: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2386: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2387: </strong></font><br>
2388:
2389: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2390: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2391: bridging.
2392: <p>
2393:
1.247 jufi 2394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2395: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2396: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2397: </strong></font><br>
2398:
1.121 deraadt 2399: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2400: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2401: <p>
2402:
1.247 jufi 2403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2404: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2405: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2406: </strong></font><br>
2407:
2408: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2409: <p>
2410:
1.247 jufi 2411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2412: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2413: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2414: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2415: </strong></font><br>
2416:
1.120 deraadt 2417: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2418: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2419: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2420: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2421: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2422: <p>
2423:
1.247 jufi 2424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2425: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2426: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2427: </strong></font><br>
2428:
1.222 miod 2429: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2430: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2431: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2432: protocols and their quirks.
2433: <p>
2434:
1.247 jufi 2435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2436: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2437: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2438: </strong></font><br>
2439:
2440: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2441: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2442: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2443: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2444: <p>
2445:
1.247 jufi 2446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2447: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2448: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2449: </strong></font><br>
2450:
2451: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2452: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2453: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2454: <p>
2455:
1.247 jufi 2456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2457: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2458: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2459: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2460: </strong></font><br>
2461:
2462: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2463: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2464: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2465: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2466: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2467: <p>
1.247 jufi 2468: </ul>
1.118 louis 2469:
1.104 louis 2470: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2471: <ul>
1.104 louis 2472:
1.247 jufi 2473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2474: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2475: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2476: </strong></font><br>
2477:
2478: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2479: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2480: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2481: be a bit dry.
2482: <p>
2483:
1.247 jufi 2484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2485: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2486: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2487: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2488: </strong></font><br>
2489: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2490: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2491: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2492: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2493: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2494: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2495: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2496: <p>
2497:
1.247 jufi 2498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2499: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2500: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2501: 2000
1.128 louis 2502: </strong></font><br>
2503:
2504: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2505: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2506: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2507: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2508: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2509: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2510: <p>
2511:
1.247 jufi 2512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2513: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2514: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2515: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2516:
2517: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2518: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2519: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2520: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2521: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2522: <p>
1.110 louis 2523:
1.247 jufi 2524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2525: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2526: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2527: </strong></font><br>
2528:
2529: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2530: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2531: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2532: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2533: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2534: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2535: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2536: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2537: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2538: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2539: <p>
2540:
1.247 jufi 2541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2542: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2543: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2544:
2545: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2546: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2547: <p>
1.108 louis 2548:
1.247 jufi 2549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2550: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2551: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2552: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2553:
2554: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2555: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2556: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2557: <p>
1.106 louis 2558:
1.247 jufi 2559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2560: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2561: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2562: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2563:
2564: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2565: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2566: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2567: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2568: <p>
1.107 louis 2569:
1.247 jufi 2570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2571: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2572: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2573: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2574:
2575: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2576: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2577: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2578: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2579: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2580: <p>
1.105 louis 2581:
1.247 jufi 2582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2583: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2584: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2585: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2586:
1.113 naddy 2587: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2588: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2589: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2590: <p>
1.104 louis 2591:
1.247 jufi 2592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2593: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2594: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2595: </strong></font><br>
2596:
2597: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2598: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2599: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2600: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2601: <p>
1.301 jose 2602:
2603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2604: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2605: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2606: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2607:
2608: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2609: hardware-supported cryptography.
2610: <p>
1.247 jufi 2611: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 2612:
1.85 louis 2613: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2614: <ul>
1.85 louis 2615:
1.247 jufi 2616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2617: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 2618: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 2619: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2620:
2621: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
2622: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
2623: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
2624: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
2625: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
2626: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
2627: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 2628: <p>
1.99 louis 2629:
1.247 jufi 2630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2631: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 2632: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2633: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 2634:
2635: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
2636: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
2637: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
2638: conditions.
1.113 naddy 2639: <p>
1.100 louis 2640:
1.247 jufi 2641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2642: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 2643: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2644: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 2645:
2646: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
2647: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
2648: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
2649: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 2650: <p>
1.95 louis 2651:
1.247 jufi 2652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2653: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 2654: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2655: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 2656:
2657: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
2658: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 2659: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 2660: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
2661: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2662: <p>
1.92 louis 2663:
1.247 jufi 2664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2665: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 2666: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2667: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 2668:
2669: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
2670: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
2671: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
2672: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
2673: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
2674: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 2675: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 2676: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 2677: <p>
1.91 louis 2678:
1.247 jufi 2679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2680: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
2681: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 2682: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2683:
2684: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2685: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2686: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2687: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2688: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2689: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2690: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2691: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2692: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2693: <p>
1.90 louis 2694:
1.247 jufi 2695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2696: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2697: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2698: </strong></font><br>
2699: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2700: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2701: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2702: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2703: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2704: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2705: <p>
2706:
1.247 jufi 2707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2708: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2709: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2710: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2711:
1.113 naddy 2712: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2713: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2714: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2715: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2716: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2717: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2718: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2719: <p>
1.87 louis 2720:
1.247 jufi 2721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2722: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2723: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2724: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2725:
2726: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2727: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2728: <p>
1.85 louis 2729:
1.247 jufi 2730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2731: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
2732: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2733: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
2734:
2735: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
2736: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
2737: <p>
2738:
2739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2740: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2741: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2742: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2743:
2744: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2745: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2746: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2747: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2748: <p>
1.89 louis 2749:
1.247 jufi 2750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2751: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2752: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2753: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2754:
2755: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2756: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2757: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2758: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2759: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2760: </ul>
1.85 louis 2761:
1.78 deraadt 2762: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2763: <ul>
1.74 louis 2764:
1.247 jufi 2765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2766: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2767: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2768: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2769: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2770:
2771: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2772: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2773: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2774: <p>
1.83 louis 2775:
1.247 jufi 2776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2777: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2778: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2779: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2780:
2781: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2782: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2783: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2784: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2785: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2786: <p>
1.93 louis 2787:
1.247 jufi 2788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2789: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2790: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2791: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2792: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2793:
1.83 louis 2794: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2795: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2796: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2797: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2798: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2799: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2800: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2801: <p>
1.82 aaron 2802:
1.247 jufi 2803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2804: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2805: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2806: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2807:
1.83 louis 2808: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2809: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2810: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2811: <p>
1.80 louis 2812:
1.247 jufi 2813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2814: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2815: Bad Press</a>,
2816: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2817: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2818:
2819: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2820: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2821: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2822: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2823: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2824: <p>
1.247 jufi 2825: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2826:
2827: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2828: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2829:
1.247 jufi 2830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2831: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2832: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2833: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2834: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2835:
2836: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2837: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2838: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2839: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2840: <p>
1.74 louis 2841:
1.247 jufi 2842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2843: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2844: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2845: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2846:
1.219 horacio 2847: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2848: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2849: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2850: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2851: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2852: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2853: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2854: <p>
1.88 louis 2855:
1.247 jufi 2856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2857: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2858: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2859: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2860:
2861: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2862: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2863: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2864: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2865: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2866: <p>
1.81 louis 2867:
1.247 jufi 2868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2869: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2870: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2871: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2872:
2873: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2874: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2875: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2876: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2877: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2878: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2879: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2880: <p>
1.90 louis 2881:
1.247 jufi 2882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2883: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2884: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2885: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2886:
2887: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2888: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2889: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2890: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2891: <p>
1.247 jufi 2892: </ul>
1.71 louis 2893:
1.69 deraadt 2894: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2895: <ul>
1.70 louis 2896:
1.247 jufi 2897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2898: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2899: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2900: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2901:
2902: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2903: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2904: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2905: <p>
1.70 louis 2906:
1.247 jufi 2907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2908: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2909: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2910: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2911:
2912: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2913: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2914: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2915: <p>
1.68 louis 2916:
1.247 jufi 2917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2918: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2919: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2920: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2921: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2922:
1.111 jufi 2923: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2924: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2925: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2926: "secure by default" installation.
2927: <p>
1.64 louis 2928:
1.247 jufi 2929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2930: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2931: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2932: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2933:
1.113 naddy 2934: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2935: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2936: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2937: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2938: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2939: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2940: <p>
1.66 louis 2941:
1.247 jufi 2942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2943: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2944: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2945: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2946:
2947: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2948: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2949: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2950: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2951: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2952: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2953: <p>
1.83 louis 2954:
1.247 jufi 2955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2956: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2957: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2958: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2959:
2960: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2961: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2962: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2963: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2964: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2965: <p>
1.64 louis 2966:
1.247 jufi 2967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2968: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2969: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2970: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2971:
2972: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2973: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2974: <p>
1.301 jose 2975:
2976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2977: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
2978: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
2979: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
2980: </strong></font><br>
2981:
2982: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
2983: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2984: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
2985: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
2986: Giving way to
2987: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2988: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2989: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2990: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
2991: <p>
1.247 jufi 2992: </ul>
1.65 louis 2993:
1.69 deraadt 2994: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2995: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2996:
1.247 jufi 2997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2998: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2999: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3000: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3001:
3002: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
3003: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
3004: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
3005: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 3006: <p>
1.88 louis 3007:
1.247 jufi 3008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3009: <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 3010: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 3011:
3012: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 3013: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
3014: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 3015: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
3016: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 3017: <p>
1.60 louis 3018:
1.247 jufi 3019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3020: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
3021: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 3022: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 3023: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3024:
3025: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
3026: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
3027: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 3028: <p>
1.58 louis 3029:
1.247 jufi 3030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 3031: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 3032: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3033:
3034: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
3035: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 3036: <p>
1.53 louis 3037:
1.247 jufi 3038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 3039: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
3040: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3041: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3042:
3043: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
3044: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
3045: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 3046: <p>
1.99 louis 3047:
1.247 jufi 3048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 3049: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 3050: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3051:
3052: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
3053: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 3054: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 3055: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 3056: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 3057:
1.247 jufi 3058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3059: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
3060: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 3061: </strong></font><br>
3062:
3063: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
3064: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3065: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3066: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3067: <p>
3068:
1.247 jufi 3069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3070: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3071: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3072: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3073:
3074: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3075: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3076: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3077:
1.247 jufi 3078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3079: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3080: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3081:
3082: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3083: in
1.247 jufi 3084: <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 3085: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3086: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3087: <p>
1.53 louis 3088:
1.247 jufi 3089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3090: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3091: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3092: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3093: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3094:
1.58 louis 3095: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3096: <p>
1.301 jose 3097:
3098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3099: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3100: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3101: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3102: Informacyjny, January 2000
3103: </strong></font><br>
3104:
3105: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3106: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3107: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3108: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3109: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3110: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3111: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3112: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3113: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3114: with the translation. For the full text, see the
3115: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
3116: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
3117: <p>
3118:
3119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3120: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3121: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3122: </strong></font><br>
3123:
3124: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3125: <p>
3126: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3127:
1.69 deraadt 3128: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3129: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3130:
1.247 jufi 3131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3132: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3133: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3134: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3135: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3136:
1.58 louis 3137: Kurt Seifried
3138: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3139: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3140: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3141: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3142:
1.247 jufi 3143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3144: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3145: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3146: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3147:
3148: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3149: <p>
1.96 louis 3150:
1.247 jufi 3151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3152: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3153: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3154: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3155: </strong></font><br>
3156:
3157: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3158: <p>
3159:
3160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3161: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3162: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3163: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3164:
3165: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3166: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
3167: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
3168: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3169: <p>
1.247 jufi 3170: </ul>
1.86 louis 3171:
1.69 deraadt 3172: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3173: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3174:
1.247 jufi 3175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3176: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3177: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3178: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3179:
3180: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3181: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3182: <p>
1.61 louis 3183:
1.247 jufi 3184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3185: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3186: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3187: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3188: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3189:
3190: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3191: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3192: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3193: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3194: right -- or at least strives to".
3195: <p>
1.48 louis 3196:
1.247 jufi 3197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3198: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3199: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3200: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3201: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3202: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3203: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3204: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3205: <p>
1.61 louis 3206:
1.247 jufi 3207: <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 3208: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3209: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3210:
3211: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3212: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3213: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3214: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3215: <p>
1.46 louis 3216:
1.247 jufi 3217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3218: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3219: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3220: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3221:
3222: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3223: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3224: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3225:
1.247 jufi 3226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3227: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3228: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3229: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3230:
3231: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3232: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3233: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3234: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3235: <p>
1.247 jufi 3236: </ul>
1.70 louis 3237:
1.69 deraadt 3238: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3239: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3240:
1.247 jufi 3241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3242: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3243: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3244: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3245: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3246:
3247: Kurt Seifried
3248: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3249: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3250: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3251: <p>
1.44 philen 3252:
1.247 jufi 3253: <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 3254: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3255: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3256:
3257: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3258: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3259:
1.247 jufi 3260: <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 3261: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3262: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3263:
3264: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3265: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3266:
1.247 jufi 3267: <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 3268: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3269: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3270:
3271: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3272: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3273: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3274: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3275: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3276:
1.247 jufi 3277: <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 3278: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3279: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3280:
1.36 louis 3281: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3282: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3283:
1.247 jufi 3284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3285: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3286: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3287: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3288:
3289: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3290: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3291: </ul>
1.38 louis 3292:
1.69 deraadt 3293: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3294: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3295:
1.247 jufi 3296: <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 3297: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3298: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3299:
3300: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3301: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3302: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3303:
1.113 naddy 3304: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3305: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3306: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3307: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3308:
3309: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3310: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3311: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3312: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3313: <blockquote>
3314: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3315: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3316: <br>
3317: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3318: </code>
3319: </blockquote>
3320: <p>
3321:
1.247 jufi 3322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3323: <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>
1.247 jufi 3324: <p>
3325:
3326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3327: <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 3328: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3329:
3330: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3331: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3332: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3333: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3334:
1.247 jufi 3335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3336: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3337: Sept. 28, 1999
3338: </strong></font><br>
3339:
3340: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3341: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3342: translating and reprinting articles from
3343: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3344: <p>
3345:
3346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3347: <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 3348: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3349:
3350: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3351: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3352: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3353: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3354: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3355: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3356: <p>
1.19 louis 3357:
1.113 naddy 3358: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3359: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3360: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3361:
3362: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3363: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3364: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3365: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3366: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3367: <p>
1.16 louis 3368:
1.247 jufi 3369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3370: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3371: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3372: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3373:
1.57 louis 3374: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3375: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3376: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3377: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3378:
1.247 jufi 3379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3380: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3381: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3382: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3383:
1.113 naddy 3384: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3385:
1.247 jufi 3386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3387: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3388: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3389: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3390:
1.23 louis 3391: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3392: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3393: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3394: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3395: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3396: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3397:
1.247 jufi 3398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3399: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3400: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3401: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3402:
1.199 pvalchev 3403: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3404: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3405: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3406: installation.
1.113 naddy 3407: <p>
1.47 louis 3408:
1.247 jufi 3409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3410: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3411: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3412: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3413:
1.301 jose 3414: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3415: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3416: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3417: </ul>
1.57 louis 3418:
1.69 deraadt 3419: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3420: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3421:
1.247 jufi 3422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3423: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3424: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3425: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3426:
3427: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3428: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3429: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3430: <p>
1.12 louis 3431:
1.247 jufi 3432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3433: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3434: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3435: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3436:
3437: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3438: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3439: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3440: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3441: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3442: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3443: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3444: <p>
1.247 jufi 3445: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3446:
1.69 deraadt 3447: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3448: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3449:
1.247 jufi 3450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3451: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3452: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3453:
3454: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3455: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3456: available."
1.113 naddy 3457: <p>
1.301 jose 3458:
3459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3460: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3461: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3462: </strong></font><br>
3463:
3464: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3465: <p>
1.247 jufi 3466: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3467:
1.69 deraadt 3468: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3469: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3470:
1.247 jufi 3471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3472: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3473: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3474:
3475: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3476: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3477: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3478: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3479: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3480: <p>
1.33 louis 3481:
1.247 jufi 3482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3483: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3484: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3485: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3486:
1.113 naddy 3487: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3488: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3489: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3490: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3491: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3492: <p>
1.247 jufi 3493: </ul>
1.57 louis 3494:
1.69 deraadt 3495: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3496: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3497:
1.247 jufi 3498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3499: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3500: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3501: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3502:
3503: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3504: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3505: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3506:
1.247 jufi 3507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3508: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3509: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3510: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3511: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3512:
3513: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3514: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3515:
1.247 jufi 3516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3517: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3518:
1.113 naddy 3519: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3520:
1.247 jufi 3521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3522: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3523: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3524: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3525:
3526: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3527: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3528: </ul>
1.23 louis 3529:
1.69 deraadt 3530: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3531: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3532:
1.247 jufi 3533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3534: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 3535: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3536:
3537: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3538: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3539: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3540:
1.247 jufi 3541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3542: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 3543: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3544: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3545:
3546: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3547: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3548: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3549: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3550: </ul>
1.57 louis 3551:
1.69 deraadt 3552: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3553: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3554:
1.247 jufi 3555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3556: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3557: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3558: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3559:
3560: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3561: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3562: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3563: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3564: <p>
1.15 louis 3565:
1.247 jufi 3566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3567: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3568: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3569: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3570:
3571: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3572: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3573: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3574: columns."
1.113 naddy 3575: <p>
1.247 jufi 3576: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3577:
1.69 deraadt 3578: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3579: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3580:
1.247 jufi 3581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3582: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3583: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3584: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3585:
3586: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3587: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3588:
1.113 naddy 3589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3590: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3591: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3592:
3593: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3594: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3595: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3596: </ul>
1.57 louis 3597:
1.69 deraadt 3598: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3599: <ul>
1.301 jose 3600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3601: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3602: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3603: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3604:
3605: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3606: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3607: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
3608: <p>
3609:
3610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3611: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
3612: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3613: Nov 13, 1998 and
3614: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
3615: Datateknik</a>,
3616: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
3617:
3618: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
3619: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
3620: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3621: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
3622: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3623:
1.113 naddy 3624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3625: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 3626: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 3627: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3628:
1.222 miod 3629: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 3630: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
3631: Implementation, including a brief interview with
3632: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 3633: <p>
1.247 jufi 3634: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3635:
1.69 deraadt 3636: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3637: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3638:
1.247 jufi 3639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3640: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 3641: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3642:
1.69 deraadt 3643: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
3644: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 3645: <p>
1.247 jufi 3646: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3647:
1.69 deraadt 3648: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3649: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 3650:
1.247 jufi 3651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3652: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
3653: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 3654: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3655:
3656: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
3657: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 3658: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3659:
1.247 jufi 3660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 3661: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 3662: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
3663: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 3664: <p>
1.247 jufi 3665: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3666:
1.69 deraadt 3667: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3668: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3669:
1.247 jufi 3670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3671: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 3672: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
3673: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 3674: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 3675: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3676:
3677: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
3678: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
3679: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 3680: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 3681: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 3682: <p>
1.247 jufi 3683: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 3684:
3685: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3686: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3687:
1.247 jufi 3688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3689: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 3690: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3691:
1.69 deraadt 3692: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
3693: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 3694: <p>
1.112 naddy 3695:
1.247 jufi 3696: </ul>
1.113 naddy 3697: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3698:
1.292 camield 3699: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3700: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3701: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.358 ! henning 3702: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.357 2003/06/03 14:31:22 jose Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 3703:
3704: </body>
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