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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:
1.48 louis 19: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.53 louis 20: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/353999.asp?cp1=1">
21: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker</a>, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
22: </strong></font><p>
23:
24: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
25: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
26: <p>
27:
28: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
29: Canadian open source projects, The Computer Paper, January 2000
30: </strong></font><p>
31:
32: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
33: in <a
34: href="http://www.canadacomputes.com/cc/section/pub/1,1100,33,00.html?pub=1&iss=52">The Computer Paper</a>.
35: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
36: the paper's site.
37: <p>
38:
39: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.51 deraadt 40: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.52 deraadt 41: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.51 deraadt 42: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
43: </strong></font><p>
44:
45: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
46: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
47: and cryptography.
48: <p>
49:
50: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
51: Byte Magazine, Russia,
52: November/December 1999 issue.
53: </strong></font><p>
54:
55: A review of OpenBSD 2.5.
56: <p>
57:
58: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.54 ! deraadt 59: <A href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.51 deraadt 60: A Home-Grown Operating System?
61: </a>, Alberta Venture Magazine, January/February, 2000
62: </strong></font><p>
63:
64: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
65: <p>
66:
67: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.50 louis 68: <A href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/991108sw.htm">
1.48 louis 69: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
70: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
71: </strong></font><p>
72:
73: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
74: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
75: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
76: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
77: right -- or at least strives to".
78: <p>
79:
1.46 louis 80: <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 81: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.46 louis 82: </strong></font><p>
83:
84: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
85: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
86: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
87: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
88: <p>
89:
1.44 philen 90: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html">OpenBSD - a secure alternative</a>,
91: Security Portal, October 27 1999
92: </strong></font><p>
93:
94: Kurt Seifried
95: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
96: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
97: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
98: <p>
99:
1.41 louis 100: <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>,
101: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
102: </strong></font><p>
103:
104: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
105: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
106:
1.37 louis 107: <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>,
108: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
109: </strong></font><p>
110:
111: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.40 deraadt 112: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 113:
1.36 louis 114: <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>,
115: New York Times, October 11, 1999
116: </strong></font><p>
117:
118: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
119: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
120: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
121: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
122: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
123:
124: <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 125: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
126: </strong></font><p>
127:
1.36 louis 128: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
129: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 130:
1.38 louis 131: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 132: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
133: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.38 louis 134: </strong></font><p>
135:
136: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
137: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
138:
1.30 deraadt 139: <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 140: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.30 deraadt 141: </strong></font><p>
1.32 louis 142:
143: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
144: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
145: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 146:
1.29 louis 147: <li><strong>
148: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.38 louis 149: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.29 louis 150: </strong></font><p>
151:
152: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
153: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
154: with the
155: town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his terminal:
156: <blockquote>
157: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
158: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
159: <br>
160: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
161: </code>
162: </blockquote>
163: <p>
164:
1.16 louis 165: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 166: <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>
167: <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 168: </strong></font><p>
169:
170: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
171: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 172: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.25 deraadt 173: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 174:
175: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 176: <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 177: </strong></font><p>
178:
179: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
180: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
181: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
182: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
183: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
184: operating system in the world."<p>
185: <p>
186:
1.43 louis 187: <li><strong>
188: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.16 louis 189: </strong></font><p>
190:
191: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
192: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
193: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.43 louis 194: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved to the archives, free registration required.<p>
1.16 louis 195: <p>
196:
1.1 deraadt 197: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.14 louis 198: <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>,
199: ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.</strong></font><p>
200:
201: Lead developer Theo de Raadt was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User
202: Group (AUUG) meeting in Melbourne.<p>
203: <p>
204:
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1.21 louis 206: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
1.38 louis 207: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.21 louis 208: </strong></font><p>
209:
1.23 louis 210: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
211: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
212: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
213: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
214: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.22 deraadt 215: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 216:
217: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 218: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
219: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
220: </strong></font><p>
221:
222: Sean Sosik-Hamor descibes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
223: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
224: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
225: installation.
226: <p>
227:
228: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 229: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 230: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.38 louis 231: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.12 louis 232:
233: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
234: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
235: of OpenBSD.<p>
236: <p>
237:
238: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 239: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 240: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.38 louis 241: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.8 deraadt 242:
243: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
244: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 245: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
246: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
247: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
248: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
249: way down the page).
1.8 deraadt 250: <p>
251:
252: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.3 deraadt 253: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.10 deraadt 254: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.38 louis 255: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.3 deraadt 256:
1.20 louis 257: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
258: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.3 deraadt 259: <p>
260:
261: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 262: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.20 louis 263: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.6 deraadt 264:
265: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
266: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
267: available."
268: <p>
269:
270: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 271: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
272: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><p>
273:
274: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
275: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
276: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
277: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
278: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
279: <p>
280:
281: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 282: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
283: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
284: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
285: </strong></font><p>
286:
287: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
288: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
289:
290: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.23 louis 291: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
292:
293: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
294:
295: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
296: <a href="">Safe and friendly read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>,
297: DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
298:
299: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
300: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
301:
302: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 303: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.38 louis 304: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.2 deraadt 305:
306: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
307: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
308: <p>
309:
1.7 deraadt 310: <a name=anzen1>
1.2 deraadt 311: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.11 ericj 312: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 313: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
1.38 louis 314: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 315:
316: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
317: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
318: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
319: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
320: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
321: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
322: <p>
323:
324: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 325: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
326: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.38 louis 327: February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.15 louis 328:
329: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
330: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
331: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
332: over to OpenBSD.
333: <p>
334:
335: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 336: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
337: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.38 louis 338: February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 339:
340: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
341: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
342: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
343: columns."
344: <p>
345:
1.2 deraadt 346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
347: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 348: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.2 deraadt 349: </strong></font><p>
350:
351: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
352: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
353: Implementation, including a brief interview with
354: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.1 deraadt 355: <p>
356:
357: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
358: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.10 deraadt 359: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 360:
361: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
362: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
363: <p>
364:
365: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
366: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.5 ian 367: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
368: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
369: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.38 louis 370: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><p>
1.5 ian 371:
372: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
373: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
374: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
375: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
376: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.1 deraadt 377: <p>
378:
379: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
380: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
381: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.38 louis 382: July, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 383:
384: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
385: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
386: <p>
387:
388: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.38 louis 389: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><p>
1.18 deraadt 390: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
391: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.1 deraadt 392: <p>
393:
1.38 louis 394: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
395: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
396: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><p>
397:
398: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
399: OpenBSD is.
400: <p>
401:
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403: <p>
1.1 deraadt 404:
1.27 deraadt 405: <hr>
1.45 philen 406: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 407:
1.17 deraadt 408: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 409: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
410: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.39 louis 411: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 412:
413: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
414: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
415: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
416: <p>
417:
418: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
419: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 420: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 421: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.39 louis 422: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 423:
1.20 louis 424: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
425: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 426: explains the licensing issues and points to our
427: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
428: <p>
429:
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1.1 deraadt 431:
1.27 deraadt 432: <hr>
1.20 louis 433: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
434:
435: <dl>
436:
437: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
438: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/bsd/index.html">BSD Magazine</a>,
439: Sept. 28, 1999
440: </strong></font><p>
441:
442: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
443: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
444: translating and reprinting articles from
445: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
446: <p>
447:
448: </dl>
449:
1.50 louis 450: <hr>
451: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
452: <dl>
453:
454: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
455: <A href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
456: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
457: </strong></font><p>
458:
459: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
460: <p>
461: </dl>
462:
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