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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>
1.51 deraadt 20: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.52 ! deraadt 21: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.51 deraadt 22: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
23: </strong></font><p>
24:
25: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
26: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
27: and cryptography.
28: <p>
29:
30: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
31: Byte Magazine, Russia,
32: November/December 1999 issue.
33: </strong></font><p>
34:
35: A review of OpenBSD 2.5.
36: <p>
37:
38: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
39: <A href="http://www.alberta-venture.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/991108sw.htm">
40: A Home-Grown Operating System?
41: </a>, Alberta Venture Magazine, January/February, 2000
42: </strong></font><p>
43:
44: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
45: <p>
46:
47: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.50 louis 48: <A href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/991108sw.htm">
1.48 louis 49: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
50: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
51: </strong></font><p>
52:
53: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
54: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
55: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
56: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
57: right -- or at least strives to".
58: <p>
59:
1.46 louis 60: <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 61: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.46 louis 62: </strong></font><p>
63:
64: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
65: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
66: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
67: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
68: <p>
69:
1.44 philen 70: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html">OpenBSD - a secure alternative</a>,
71: Security Portal, October 27 1999
72: </strong></font><p>
73:
74: Kurt Seifried
75: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
76: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
77: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
78: <p>
79:
1.41 louis 80: <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>,
81: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
82: </strong></font><p>
83:
84: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
85: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
86:
1.37 louis 87: <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>,
88: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
89: </strong></font><p>
90:
91: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.40 deraadt 92: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 93:
1.36 louis 94: <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>,
95: New York Times, October 11, 1999
96: </strong></font><p>
97:
98: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
99: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
100: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
101: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
102: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
103:
104: <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 105: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
106: </strong></font><p>
107:
1.36 louis 108: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
109: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 110:
1.38 louis 111: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 112: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
113: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.38 louis 114: </strong></font><p>
115:
116: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
117: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
118:
1.30 deraadt 119: <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 120: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.30 deraadt 121: </strong></font><p>
1.32 louis 122:
123: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
124: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
125: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 126:
1.29 louis 127: <li><strong>
128: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.38 louis 129: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.29 louis 130: </strong></font><p>
131:
132: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
133: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
134: with the
135: town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his terminal:
136: <blockquote>
137: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
138: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
139: <br>
140: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
141: </code>
142: </blockquote>
143: <p>
144:
1.16 louis 145: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 146: <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>
147: <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 148: </strong></font><p>
149:
150: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
151: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 152: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.25 deraadt 153: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 154:
155: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 156: <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 157: </strong></font><p>
158:
159: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
160: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
161: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
162: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
163: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
164: operating system in the world."<p>
165: <p>
166:
1.43 louis 167: <li><strong>
168: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.16 louis 169: </strong></font><p>
170:
171: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
172: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
173: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.43 louis 174: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved to the archives, free registration required.<p>
1.16 louis 175: <p>
176:
1.1 deraadt 177: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.14 louis 178: <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>,
179: ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.</strong></font><p>
180:
181: Lead developer Theo de Raadt was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User
182: Group (AUUG) meeting in Melbourne.<p>
183: <p>
184:
185: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 186: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
1.38 louis 187: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.21 louis 188: </strong></font><p>
189:
1.23 louis 190: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
191: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
192: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
193: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
194: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.22 deraadt 195: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 196:
197: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 198: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
199: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
200: </strong></font><p>
201:
202: Sean Sosik-Hamor descibes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
203: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
204: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
205: installation.
206: <p>
207:
208: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 209: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 210: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.38 louis 211: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.12 louis 212:
213: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
214: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
215: of OpenBSD.<p>
216: <p>
217:
218: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 219: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 220: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.38 louis 221: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.8 deraadt 222:
223: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
224: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 225: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
226: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
227: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
228: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
229: way down the page).
1.8 deraadt 230: <p>
231:
232: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.3 deraadt 233: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.10 deraadt 234: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.38 louis 235: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.3 deraadt 236:
1.20 louis 237: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
238: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.3 deraadt 239: <p>
240:
241: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 242: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.20 louis 243: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.6 deraadt 244:
245: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
246: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
247: available."
248: <p>
249:
250: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 251: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
252: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><p>
253:
254: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
255: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
256: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
257: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
258: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
259: <p>
260:
261: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 262: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
263: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
264: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
265: </strong></font><p>
266:
267: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
268: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
269:
270: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.23 louis 271: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
272:
273: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
274:
275: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
276: <a href="">Safe and friendly read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>,
277: DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
278:
279: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
280: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
281:
282: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 283: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.38 louis 284: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.2 deraadt 285:
286: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
287: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
288: <p>
289:
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1.2 deraadt 291: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.11 ericj 292: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 293: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
1.38 louis 294: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 295:
296: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
297: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
298: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
299: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
300: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
301: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
302: <p>
303:
304: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 305: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
306: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.38 louis 307: February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.15 louis 308:
309: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
310: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
311: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
312: over to OpenBSD.
313: <p>
314:
315: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 316: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
317: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.38 louis 318: February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 319:
320: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
321: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
322: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
323: columns."
324: <p>
325:
1.2 deraadt 326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
327: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 328: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.2 deraadt 329: </strong></font><p>
330:
331: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
332: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
333: Implementation, including a brief interview with
334: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.1 deraadt 335: <p>
336:
337: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
338: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.10 deraadt 339: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 340:
341: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
342: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
343: <p>
344:
345: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
346: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.5 ian 347: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
348: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
349: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.38 louis 350: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><p>
1.5 ian 351:
352: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
353: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
354: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
355: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
356: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.1 deraadt 357: <p>
358:
359: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
360: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
361: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.38 louis 362: July, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 363:
364: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
365: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
366: <p>
367:
368: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.38 louis 369: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><p>
1.18 deraadt 370: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
371: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.1 deraadt 372: <p>
373:
1.38 louis 374: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
375: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
376: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><p>
377:
378: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
379: OpenBSD is.
380: <p>
381:
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383: <p>
1.1 deraadt 384:
1.27 deraadt 385: <hr>
1.45 philen 386: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 387:
1.17 deraadt 388: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 389: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
390: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.39 louis 391: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 392:
393: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
394: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
395: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
396: <p>
397:
398: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
399: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 400: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 401: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.39 louis 402: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 403:
1.20 louis 404: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
405: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 406: explains the licensing issues and points to our
407: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
408: <p>
409:
1.17 deraadt 410: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 411:
1.27 deraadt 412: <hr>
1.20 louis 413: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
414:
415: <dl>
416:
417: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
418: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/bsd/index.html">BSD Magazine</a>,
419: Sept. 28, 1999
420: </strong></font><p>
421:
422: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
423: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
424: translating and reprinting articles from
425: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
426: <p>
427:
428: </dl>
429:
1.50 louis 430: <hr>
431: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
432: <dl>
433:
434: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
435: <A href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
436: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
437: </strong></font><p>
438:
439: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
440: <p>
441: </dl>
442:
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