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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>
1.17 deraadt 17: <dl>
1.16 louis 18:
1.48 ! louis 19: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
! 20: <A HRef="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/security.htm">
! 21: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
! 22: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
! 23: </strong></font><p>
! 24:
! 25: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
! 26: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
! 27: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
! 28: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
! 29: right -- or at least strives to".
! 30: <p>
! 31:
1.46 louis 32: <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 33: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.46 louis 34: </strong></font><p>
35:
36: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
37: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
38: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
39: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
40: <p>
41:
1.44 philen 42: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html">OpenBSD - a secure alternative</a>,
43: Security Portal, October 27 1999
44: </strong></font><p>
45:
46: Kurt Seifried
47: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
48: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
49: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
50: <p>
51:
1.41 louis 52: <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>,
53: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
54: </strong></font><p>
55:
56: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
57: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
58:
1.37 louis 59: <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>,
60: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
61: </strong></font><p>
62:
63: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.40 deraadt 64: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 65:
1.36 louis 66: <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>,
67: New York Times, October 11, 1999
68: </strong></font><p>
69:
70: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
71: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
72: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
73: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
74: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
75:
76: <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 77: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
78: </strong></font><p>
79:
1.36 louis 80: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
81: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 82:
1.38 louis 83: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 84: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
85: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.38 louis 86: </strong></font><p>
87:
88: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
89: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
90:
1.30 deraadt 91: <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 92: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.30 deraadt 93: </strong></font><p>
1.32 louis 94:
95: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
96: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
97: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 98:
1.29 louis 99: <li><strong>
100: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.38 louis 101: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.29 louis 102: </strong></font><p>
103:
104: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
105: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
106: with the
107: town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his terminal:
108: <blockquote>
109: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
110: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
111: <br>
112: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
113: </code>
114: </blockquote>
115: <p>
116:
1.16 louis 117: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 118: <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>
119: <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 120: </strong></font><p>
121:
122: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
123: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 124: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.25 deraadt 125: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 126:
127: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 128: <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 129: </strong></font><p>
130:
131: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
132: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
133: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
134: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
135: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
136: operating system in the world."<p>
137: <p>
138:
1.43 louis 139: <li><strong>
140: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.16 louis 141: </strong></font><p>
142:
143: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
144: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
145: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.43 louis 146: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved to the archives, free registration required.<p>
1.16 louis 147: <p>
148:
1.1 deraadt 149: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.14 louis 150: <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>,
151: ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.</strong></font><p>
152:
153: Lead developer Theo de Raadt was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User
154: Group (AUUG) meeting in Melbourne.<p>
155: <p>
156:
157: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 158: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
1.38 louis 159: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.21 louis 160: </strong></font><p>
161:
1.23 louis 162: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
163: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
164: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
165: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
166: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.22 deraadt 167: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 168:
169: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 170: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
171: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
172: </strong></font><p>
173:
174: Sean Sosik-Hamor descibes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
175: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
176: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
177: installation.
178: <p>
179:
180: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 181: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 182: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.38 louis 183: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.12 louis 184:
185: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
186: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
187: of OpenBSD.<p>
188: <p>
189:
190: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 191: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 192: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.38 louis 193: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.8 deraadt 194:
195: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
196: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 197: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
198: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
199: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
200: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
201: way down the page).
1.8 deraadt 202: <p>
203:
204: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.3 deraadt 205: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.10 deraadt 206: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.38 louis 207: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.3 deraadt 208:
1.20 louis 209: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
210: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.3 deraadt 211: <p>
212:
213: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 214: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.20 louis 215: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.6 deraadt 216:
217: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
218: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
219: available."
220: <p>
221:
222: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 223: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
224: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><p>
225:
226: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
227: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
228: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
229: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
230: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
231: <p>
232:
233: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 234: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
235: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
236: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
237: </strong></font><p>
238:
239: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
240: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
241:
242: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.23 louis 243: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
244:
245: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
246:
247: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
248: <a href="">Safe and friendly read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>,
249: DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
250:
251: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
252: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
253:
254: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 255: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.38 louis 256: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.2 deraadt 257:
258: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
259: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
260: <p>
261:
1.7 deraadt 262: <a name=anzen1>
1.2 deraadt 263: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.11 ericj 264: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 265: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
1.38 louis 266: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 267:
268: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
269: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
270: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
271: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
272: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
273: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
274: <p>
275:
276: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 277: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
278: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.38 louis 279: February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.15 louis 280:
281: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
282: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
283: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
284: over to OpenBSD.
285: <p>
286:
287: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 288: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
289: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.38 louis 290: February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 291:
292: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
293: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
294: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
295: columns."
296: <p>
297:
1.2 deraadt 298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
299: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 300: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.2 deraadt 301: </strong></font><p>
302:
303: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
304: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
305: Implementation, including a brief interview with
306: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.1 deraadt 307: <p>
308:
309: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
310: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.10 deraadt 311: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 312:
313: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
314: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
315: <p>
316:
317: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
318: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.5 ian 319: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
320: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
321: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.38 louis 322: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><p>
1.5 ian 323:
324: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
325: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
326: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
327: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
328: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.1 deraadt 329: <p>
330:
331: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
332: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
333: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.38 louis 334: July, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 335:
336: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
337: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
338: <p>
339:
340: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.38 louis 341: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><p>
1.18 deraadt 342: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
343: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.1 deraadt 344: <p>
345:
1.38 louis 346: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
347: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
348: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><p>
349:
350: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
351: OpenBSD is.
352: <p>
353:
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1.27 deraadt 357: <hr>
1.45 philen 358: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 359:
1.17 deraadt 360: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 361: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
362: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.39 louis 363: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 364:
365: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
366: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
367: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
368: <p>
369:
370: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
371: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 372: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 373: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.39 louis 374: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 375:
1.20 louis 376: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
377: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 378: explains the licensing issues and points to our
379: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
380: <p>
381:
1.17 deraadt 382: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 383:
1.27 deraadt 384: <hr>
1.20 louis 385: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
386:
387: <dl>
388:
389: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
390: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/bsd/index.html">BSD Magazine</a>,
391: Sept. 28, 1999
392: </strong></font><p>
393:
394: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
395: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
396: translating and reprinting articles from
397: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
398: <p>
399:
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