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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:
1.46 louis 19: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://slashdot.org/interviews/99/11/04/1716225.shtml">UK Royal Family webmaster prefers OpenBSD</a>,
20: Slashdot, Nov. 4, 1999
21: </strong></font><p>
22:
23: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
24: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
25: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
26: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
27: <p>
28:
1.44 philen 29: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html">OpenBSD - a secure alternative</a>,
30: Security Portal, October 27 1999
31: </strong></font><p>
32:
33: Kurt Seifried
34: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
35: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
36: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
37: <p>
38:
1.41 louis 39: <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>,
40: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
41: </strong></font><p>
42:
43: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
44: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
45:
1.37 louis 46: <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>,
47: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
48: </strong></font><p>
49:
50: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.40 deraadt 51: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 52:
1.36 louis 53: <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>,
54: New York Times, October 11, 1999
55: </strong></font><p>
56:
57: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
58: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
59: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
60: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
61: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
62:
63: <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 64: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
65: </strong></font><p>
66:
1.36 louis 67: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
68: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 69:
1.38 louis 70: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 71: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
72: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.38 louis 73: </strong></font><p>
74:
75: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
76: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
77:
1.30 deraadt 78: <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 79: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.30 deraadt 80: </strong></font><p>
1.32 louis 81:
82: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
83: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
84: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 85:
1.29 louis 86: <li><strong>
87: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.38 louis 88: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.29 louis 89: </strong></font><p>
90:
91: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
92: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
93: with the
94: town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his terminal:
95: <blockquote>
96: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
97: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
98: <br>
99: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
100: </code>
101: </blockquote>
102: <p>
103:
1.16 louis 104: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 105: <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>
106: <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 107: </strong></font><p>
108:
109: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
110: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 111: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.25 deraadt 112: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 113:
114: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 115: <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 116: </strong></font><p>
117:
118: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
119: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
120: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
121: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
122: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
123: operating system in the world."<p>
124: <p>
125:
1.43 louis 126: <li><strong>
127: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.16 louis 128: </strong></font><p>
129:
130: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
131: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
132: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.43 louis 133: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved to the archives, free registration required.<p>
1.16 louis 134: <p>
135:
1.1 deraadt 136: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.14 louis 137: <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>,
138: ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.</strong></font><p>
139:
140: Lead developer Theo de Raadt was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User
141: Group (AUUG) meeting in Melbourne.<p>
142: <p>
143:
144: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 145: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
1.38 louis 146: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.21 louis 147: </strong></font><p>
148:
1.23 louis 149: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
150: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
151: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
152: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
153: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.22 deraadt 154: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 155:
156: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 ! louis 157: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
! 158: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
! 159: </strong></font><p>
! 160:
! 161: Sean Sosik-Hamor descibes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
! 162: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
! 163: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
! 164: installation.
! 165: <p>
! 166:
! 167: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 168: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 169: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.38 louis 170: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.12 louis 171:
172: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
173: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
174: of OpenBSD.<p>
175: <p>
176:
177: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 178: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 179: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.38 louis 180: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.8 deraadt 181:
182: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
183: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 184: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
185: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
186: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
187: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
188: way down the page).
1.8 deraadt 189: <p>
190:
191: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.3 deraadt 192: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.10 deraadt 193: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.38 louis 194: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.3 deraadt 195:
1.20 louis 196: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
197: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.3 deraadt 198: <p>
199:
200: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 201: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.20 louis 202: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.6 deraadt 203:
204: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
205: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
206: available."
207: <p>
208:
209: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 210: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
211: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><p>
212:
213: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
214: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
215: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
216: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
217: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
218: <p>
219:
220: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 221: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
222: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
223: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
224: </strong></font><p>
225:
226: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
227: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
228:
229: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.23 louis 230: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
231:
232: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
233:
234: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
235: <a href="">Safe and friendly read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>,
236: DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
237:
238: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
239: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
240:
241: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 242: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.38 louis 243: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.2 deraadt 244:
245: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
246: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
247: <p>
248:
1.7 deraadt 249: <a name=anzen1>
1.2 deraadt 250: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.11 ericj 251: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 252: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
1.38 louis 253: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 254:
255: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
256: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
257: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
258: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
259: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
260: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
261: <p>
262:
263: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 264: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
265: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.38 louis 266: February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.15 louis 267:
268: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
269: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
270: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
271: over to OpenBSD.
272: <p>
273:
274: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 275: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
276: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.38 louis 277: February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 278:
279: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
280: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
281: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
282: columns."
283: <p>
284:
1.2 deraadt 285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
286: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 287: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.2 deraadt 288: </strong></font><p>
289:
290: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
291: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
292: Implementation, including a brief interview with
293: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.1 deraadt 294: <p>
295:
296: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
297: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.10 deraadt 298: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 299:
300: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
301: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
302: <p>
303:
304: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
305: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.5 ian 306: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
307: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
308: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.38 louis 309: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><p>
1.5 ian 310:
311: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
312: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
313: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
314: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
315: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.1 deraadt 316: <p>
317:
318: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
319: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
320: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.38 louis 321: July, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 322:
323: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
324: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
325: <p>
326:
327: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.38 louis 328: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><p>
1.18 deraadt 329: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
330: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.1 deraadt 331: <p>
332:
1.38 louis 333: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
334: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
335: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><p>
336:
337: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
338: OpenBSD is.
339: <p>
340:
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1.27 deraadt 344: <hr>
1.45 philen 345: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 346:
1.17 deraadt 347: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 348: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
349: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.39 louis 350: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 351:
352: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
353: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
354: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
355: <p>
356:
357: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
358: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 359: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 360: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.39 louis 361: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 362:
1.20 louis 363: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
364: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 365: explains the licensing issues and points to our
366: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
367: <p>
368:
1.17 deraadt 369: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 370:
1.27 deraadt 371: <hr>
1.20 louis 372: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
373:
374: <dl>
375:
376: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
377: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/bsd/index.html">BSD Magazine</a>,
378: Sept. 28, 1999
379: </strong></font><p>
380:
381: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
382: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
383: translating and reprinting articles from
384: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
385: <p>
386:
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388:
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