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1.18 deraadt 14: <h2><font color=#e00000>Media Coverage</strong><hr></h2>
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1.18 deraadt 16: <h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
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1.16 louis 18:
1.36 ! louis 19: <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>,
! 20: New York Times, October 11, 1999
! 21: </strong></font><p>
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! 23: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
! 24: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
! 25: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
! 26: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
! 27: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
! 28:
! 29: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href=http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/991006/ny_ntwrk_s_2.html>NSTI announces commercial support services for OpenBSD</a>,
1.34 beck 30: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
31: </strong></font><p>
32:
1.36 ! louis 33: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
! 34: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 35:
1.30 deraadt 36: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href=http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/technology/stories/990930/2929913.html>Calgarian heads team ensuring OpenBSD security</a>,
1.32 louis 37: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999.
1.30 deraadt 38: </strong></font><p>
1.32 louis 39:
40: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
41: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
42: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 43:
1.29 louis 44: <li><strong>
45: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
46: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999.<br>
47: </strong></font><p>
48:
49: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
50: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
51: with the
52: town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his terminal:
53: <blockquote>
54: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
55: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
56: <br>
57: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
58: </code>
59: </blockquote>
60: <p>
61:
1.16 louis 62: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.28 deraadt 63: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?/features/990927hack.htm">Hack this! Microsoft and its critics dispute software-security issues, but users make the final call</a>, Infoworld, Sept. 27, 1999.<br>
64: <li><a href="http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/28/ms.security.idg/index.html">Microsoft: Bad security, or bad press?</a>, CNN, Sept. 28, 1999.
1.24 deraadt 65: </strong></font><p>
66:
67: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
68: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 69: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.25 deraadt 70: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
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72: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.19 louis 73: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg183.htm">Open source has roots in the Net</a>, USA Today, Sept. 20, 1999.
74: </strong></font><p>
75:
76: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
77: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
78: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
79: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
80: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
81: operating system in the world."<p>
82: <p>
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84: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.16 louis 85: <a href="http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/business/Even_better_than_Linux+.shtml">Even better than Linux</a>, Boston Globe, Sept 16, 1999.
86: </strong></font><p>
87:
88: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
89: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
90: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
91: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not).<p>
92: <p>
93:
1.1 deraadt 94: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.14 louis 95: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idg_frames/english/content.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.idg.com.au%2FCWT1997.nsf%2FHome%2Bpage%2F83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41%3FOpenDocument&return=%2fidg_frames%2fenglish%2ffeatures%2ehtml">Microsoft, Linux to become duopoly?</a>,
96: ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.</strong></font><p>
97:
98: Lead developer Theo de Raadt was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User
99: Group (AUUG) meeting in Melbourne.<p>
100: <p>
101:
102: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 103: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
104: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999.
105: </strong></font><p>
106:
1.23 louis 107: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
108: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
109: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
110: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
111: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.22 deraadt 112: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 113:
114: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 115: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 116: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
117: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999.</strong></font><p>
118:
119: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
120: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
121: of OpenBSD.<p>
122: <p>
123:
124: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 125: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 126: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
127: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.8 deraadt 128:
129: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
130: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 131: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
132: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
133: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
134: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
135: way down the page).
1.8 deraadt 136: <p>
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138: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.3 deraadt 139: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.10 deraadt 140: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
141: National Post, May 25, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.3 deraadt 142:
1.20 louis 143: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
144: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.3 deraadt 145: <p>
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147: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 148: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.20 louis 149: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.6 deraadt 150:
151: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
152: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
153: available."
154: <p>
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156: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 157: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
158: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><p>
159:
160: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
161: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
162: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
163: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
164: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
165: <p>
166:
167: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.23 louis 168: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
169:
170: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
171:
172: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
173: <a href="">Safe and friendly read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>,
174: DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
175:
176: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
177: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
178:
179: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 180: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.10 deraadt 181: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.2 deraadt 182:
183: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
184: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
185: <p>
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1.2 deraadt 188: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.11 ericj 189: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 190: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
191: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 192:
193: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
194: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
195: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
196: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
197: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
198: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
199: <p>
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201: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 202: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
203: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
204: February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
205:
206: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
207: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
208: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
209: over to OpenBSD.
210: <p>
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212: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 213: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
214: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
215: February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
216:
217: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
218: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
219: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
220: columns."
221: <p>
222:
1.2 deraadt 223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
224: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
225: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998.
226: </strong></font><p>
227:
228: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
229: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
230: Implementation, including a brief interview with
231: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.1 deraadt 232: <p>
233:
234: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
235: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.10 deraadt 236: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 237:
238: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
239: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
240: <p>
241:
242: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
243: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.10 deraadt 244: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 245:
246: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
247: OpenBSD is.
248: <p>
249:
250: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
251: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.5 ian 252: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
253: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
254: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.10 deraadt 255: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81.</strong></font><p>
1.5 ian 256:
257: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
258: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
259: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
260: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
261: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.1 deraadt 262: <p>
263:
264: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
265: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
266: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
267: July, 1998.</strong></font><p>
268:
269: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
270: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
271: <p>
272:
273: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
274: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96. Paper edition only.</strong></font><p>
1.18 deraadt 275: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
276: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.1 deraadt 277: <p>
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1.18 deraadt 283: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in swedish)</font></h3><p>
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1.1 deraadt 286: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
287: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.10 deraadt 288: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 289:
290: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
291: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
292: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
293: <p>
294:
295: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
296: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 297: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 298: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 299: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998.</strong></font><p>
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1.20 louis 301: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
302: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 303: explains the licensing issues and points to our
304: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
305: <p>
306:
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1.27 deraadt 309: <hr>
1.20 louis 310: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
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314: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
315: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/bsd/index.html">BSD Magazine</a>,
316: Sept. 28, 1999
317: </strong></font><p>
318:
319: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
320: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
321: translating and reprinting articles from
322: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
323: <p>
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