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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:
1.41 ! louis 19: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/22/1157259&mode=thread
! 20: <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>,
! 21: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
! 22: </strong></font><p>
! 23:
! 24: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
! 25: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
! 26:
1.37 louis 27: <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>,
28: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
29: </strong></font><p>
30:
31: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.40 deraadt 32: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 33:
1.36 louis 34: <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>,
35: New York Times, October 11, 1999
36: </strong></font><p>
37:
38: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
39: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
40: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
41: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
42: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
43:
44: <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 45: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
46: </strong></font><p>
47:
1.36 louis 48: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
49: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 50:
1.38 louis 51: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 52: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
53: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.38 louis 54: </strong></font><p>
55:
56: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
57: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
58:
1.30 deraadt 59: <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 60: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.30 deraadt 61: </strong></font><p>
1.32 louis 62:
63: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
64: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
65: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 66:
1.29 louis 67: <li><strong>
68: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.38 louis 69: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.29 louis 70: </strong></font><p>
71:
72: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
73: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
74: with the
75: town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his terminal:
76: <blockquote>
77: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
78: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
79: <br>
80: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
81: </code>
82: </blockquote>
83: <p>
84:
1.16 louis 85: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 86: <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>
87: <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 88: </strong></font><p>
89:
90: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
91: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 92: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.25 deraadt 93: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 94:
95: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 96: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg183.htm">Open source has roots in the Net</a>, USA Today, Sept. 20, 1999
1.19 louis 97: </strong></font><p>
98:
99: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
100: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
101: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
102: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
103: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
104: operating system in the world."<p>
105: <p>
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107: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 108: <a href="http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/business/Even_better_than_Linux+.shtml">Even better than Linux</a>, Boston Globe, Sept 16, 1999
1.16 louis 109: </strong></font><p>
110:
111: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
112: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
113: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
114: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not).<p>
115: <p>
116:
1.1 deraadt 117: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.14 louis 118: <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>,
119: ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.</strong></font><p>
120:
121: Lead developer Theo de Raadt was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User
122: Group (AUUG) meeting in Melbourne.<p>
123: <p>
124:
125: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 126: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
1.38 louis 127: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.21 louis 128: </strong></font><p>
129:
1.23 louis 130: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
131: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
132: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
133: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
134: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.22 deraadt 135: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 136:
137: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 138: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 139: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.38 louis 140: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.12 louis 141:
142: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
143: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
144: of OpenBSD.<p>
145: <p>
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147: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 148: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 149: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.38 louis 150: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.8 deraadt 151:
152: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
153: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 154: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
155: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
156: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
157: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
158: way down the page).
1.8 deraadt 159: <p>
160:
161: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.3 deraadt 162: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.10 deraadt 163: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.38 louis 164: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.3 deraadt 165:
1.20 louis 166: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
167: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.3 deraadt 168: <p>
169:
170: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 171: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.20 louis 172: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.6 deraadt 173:
174: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
175: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
176: available."
177: <p>
178:
179: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 180: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
181: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><p>
182:
183: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
184: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
185: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
186: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
187: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
188: <p>
189:
190: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 191: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
192: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
193: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
194: </strong></font><p>
195:
196: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
197: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
198:
199: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.23 louis 200: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
201:
202: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
203:
204: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
205: <a href="">Safe and friendly read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>,
206: DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
207:
208: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
209: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
210:
211: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 212: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.38 louis 213: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.2 deraadt 214:
215: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
216: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
217: <p>
218:
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1.2 deraadt 220: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.11 ericj 221: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 222: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
1.38 louis 223: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 224:
225: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
226: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
227: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
228: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
229: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
230: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
231: <p>
232:
233: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 234: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
235: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.38 louis 236: February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.15 louis 237:
238: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
239: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
240: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
241: over to OpenBSD.
242: <p>
243:
244: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 245: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
246: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.38 louis 247: February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 248:
249: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
250: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
251: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
252: columns."
253: <p>
254:
1.2 deraadt 255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
256: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 257: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.2 deraadt 258: </strong></font><p>
259:
260: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
261: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
262: Implementation, including a brief interview with
263: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.1 deraadt 264: <p>
265:
266: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
267: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.10 deraadt 268: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 269:
270: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
271: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
272: <p>
273:
274: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
275: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.5 ian 276: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
277: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
278: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.38 louis 279: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><p>
1.5 ian 280:
281: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
282: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
283: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
284: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
285: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.1 deraadt 286: <p>
287:
288: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
289: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
290: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.38 louis 291: July, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 292:
293: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
294: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
295: <p>
296:
297: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.38 louis 298: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><p>
1.18 deraadt 299: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
300: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.1 deraadt 301: <p>
302:
1.38 louis 303: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
304: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
305: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><p>
306:
307: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
308: OpenBSD is.
309: <p>
310:
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1.27 deraadt 314: <hr>
1.18 deraadt 315: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 316:
1.17 deraadt 317: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 318: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
319: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.39 louis 320: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 321:
322: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
323: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
324: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
325: <p>
326:
327: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
328: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 329: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 330: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.39 louis 331: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 332:
1.20 louis 333: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
334: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 335: explains the licensing issues and points to our
336: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
337: <p>
338:
1.17 deraadt 339: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 340:
1.27 deraadt 341: <hr>
1.20 louis 342: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
343:
344: <dl>
345:
346: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
347: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/bsd/index.html">BSD Magazine</a>,
348: Sept. 28, 1999
349: </strong></font><p>
350:
351: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
352: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
353: translating and reprinting articles from
354: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
355: <p>
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