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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>
1.55 ! deraadt 29: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.53 louis 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>.
1.55 ! deraadt 35:
1.53 louis 36: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 ! deraadt 37: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.53 louis 38: <p>
39:
40: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.51 deraadt 41: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.52 deraadt 42: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.51 deraadt 43: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
44: </strong></font><p>
45:
46: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
47: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
48: and cryptography.
49: <p>
50:
51: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
52: Byte Magazine, Russia,
53: November/December 1999 issue.
54: </strong></font><p>
55:
56: A review of OpenBSD 2.5.
57: <p>
58:
59: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.54 deraadt 60: <A href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.51 deraadt 61: A Home-Grown Operating System?
62: </a>, Alberta Venture Magazine, January/February, 2000
63: </strong></font><p>
64:
65: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
66: <p>
67:
68: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.50 louis 69: <A href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/991108sw.htm">
1.48 louis 70: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
71: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
72: </strong></font><p>
73:
74: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
75: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
76: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
77: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
78: right -- or at least strives to".
79: <p>
80:
1.46 louis 81: <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 82: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.46 louis 83: </strong></font><p>
84:
85: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
86: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
87: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
88: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
89: <p>
90:
1.44 philen 91: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html">OpenBSD - a secure alternative</a>,
92: Security Portal, October 27 1999
93: </strong></font><p>
94:
95: Kurt Seifried
96: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
97: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
98: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
99: <p>
100:
1.41 louis 101: <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>,
102: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
103: </strong></font><p>
104:
105: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
106: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
107:
1.37 louis 108: <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>,
109: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
110: </strong></font><p>
111:
112: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.40 deraadt 113: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 114:
1.36 louis 115: <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>,
116: New York Times, October 11, 1999
117: </strong></font><p>
118:
119: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
120: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
121: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
122: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
123: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
124:
125: <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 126: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
127: </strong></font><p>
128:
1.36 louis 129: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
130: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 131:
1.38 louis 132: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 133: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
134: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.38 louis 135: </strong></font><p>
136:
137: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
138: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
139:
1.30 deraadt 140: <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 141: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.30 deraadt 142: </strong></font><p>
1.32 louis 143:
144: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
145: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
146: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 147:
1.29 louis 148: <li><strong>
149: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.38 louis 150: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.29 louis 151: </strong></font><p>
152:
153: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
154: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
155: with the
156: town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his terminal:
157: <blockquote>
158: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
159: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
160: <br>
161: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
162: </code>
163: </blockquote>
164: <p>
165:
1.16 louis 166: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 167: <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>
168: <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 169: </strong></font><p>
170:
171: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
172: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 173: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.25 deraadt 174: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 175:
176: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 177: <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 178: </strong></font><p>
179:
180: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
181: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
182: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
183: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
184: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
185: operating system in the world."<p>
186: <p>
187:
1.43 louis 188: <li><strong>
189: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.16 louis 190: </strong></font><p>
191:
192: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
193: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
194: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.43 louis 195: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved to the archives, free registration required.<p>
1.16 louis 196: <p>
197:
1.1 deraadt 198: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.14 louis 199: <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>,
200: ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.</strong></font><p>
201:
202: Lead developer Theo de Raadt was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User
203: Group (AUUG) meeting in Melbourne.<p>
204: <p>
205:
206: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 207: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
1.38 louis 208: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.21 louis 209: </strong></font><p>
210:
1.23 louis 211: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
212: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
213: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
214: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
215: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.22 deraadt 216: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 217:
218: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 219: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
220: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
221: </strong></font><p>
222:
223: Sean Sosik-Hamor descibes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
224: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
225: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
226: installation.
227: <p>
228:
229: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 230: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 231: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.38 louis 232: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.12 louis 233:
234: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
235: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
236: of OpenBSD.<p>
237: <p>
238:
239: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 240: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 241: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.38 louis 242: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.8 deraadt 243:
244: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
245: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 246: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
247: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
248: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
249: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
250: way down the page).
1.8 deraadt 251: <p>
252:
253: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.3 deraadt 254: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.10 deraadt 255: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.38 louis 256: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.3 deraadt 257:
1.20 louis 258: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
259: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.3 deraadt 260: <p>
261:
262: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 263: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.20 louis 264: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.6 deraadt 265:
266: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
267: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
268: available."
269: <p>
270:
271: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 272: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
273: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><p>
274:
275: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
276: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
277: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
278: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
279: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
280: <p>
281:
282: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 283: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
284: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
285: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
286: </strong></font><p>
287:
288: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
289: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
290:
291: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.23 louis 292: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
293:
294: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
295:
296: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
297: <a href="">Safe and friendly read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>,
298: DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
299:
300: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
301: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
302:
303: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 304: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.38 louis 305: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.2 deraadt 306:
307: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
308: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
309: <p>
310:
1.7 deraadt 311: <a name=anzen1>
1.2 deraadt 312: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.11 ericj 313: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 314: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
1.38 louis 315: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 316:
317: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
318: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
319: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
320: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
321: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
322: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
323: <p>
324:
325: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 326: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
327: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.38 louis 328: February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.15 louis 329:
330: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
331: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
332: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
333: over to OpenBSD.
334: <p>
335:
336: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 337: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
338: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.38 louis 339: February, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 340:
341: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
342: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
343: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
344: columns."
345: <p>
346:
1.2 deraadt 347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
348: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 349: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.2 deraadt 350: </strong></font><p>
351:
352: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
353: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
354: Implementation, including a brief interview with
355: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.1 deraadt 356: <p>
357:
358: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
359: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.10 deraadt 360: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 361:
362: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
363: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
364: <p>
365:
366: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
367: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.5 ian 368: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
369: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
370: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.38 louis 371: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><p>
1.5 ian 372:
373: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
374: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
375: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
376: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
377: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.1 deraadt 378: <p>
379:
380: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
381: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
382: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.38 louis 383: July, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 384:
385: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
386: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
387: <p>
388:
389: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.38 louis 390: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><p>
1.18 deraadt 391: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
392: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.1 deraadt 393: <p>
394:
1.38 louis 395: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
396: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
397: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><p>
398:
399: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
400: OpenBSD is.
401: <p>
402:
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404: <p>
1.1 deraadt 405:
1.27 deraadt 406: <hr>
1.45 philen 407: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 408:
1.17 deraadt 409: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 410: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
411: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.39 louis 412: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 413:
414: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
415: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
416: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
417: <p>
418:
419: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
420: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 421: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 422: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.39 louis 423: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 424:
1.20 louis 425: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
426: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 427: explains the licensing issues and points to our
428: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
429: <p>
430:
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1.1 deraadt 432:
1.27 deraadt 433: <hr>
1.20 louis 434: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
435:
436: <dl>
437:
438: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
439: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/bsd/index.html">BSD Magazine</a>,
440: Sept. 28, 1999
441: </strong></font><p>
442:
443: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
444: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
445: translating and reprinting articles from
446: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
447: <p>
448:
449: </dl>
450:
1.50 louis 451: <hr>
452: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
453: <dl>
454:
455: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
456: <A href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
457: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
458: </strong></font><p>
459:
460: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
461: <p>
462: </dl>
463:
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