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16: <h2>Media Coverage.</h2>
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1.3 deraadt 23: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
24: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a></strong></font>,
1.4 deraadt 25: National Post, May 25, 1999</a><p>
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27: Newspaper article about OpenBSD.
28: <p>
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1.6 ! deraadt 31: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
! 32: The Net's stealth operating system.</a></strong></font>, July 22, 1999<p>
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! 34: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
! 35: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
! 36: available."
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1.2 deraadt 40: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
41: Why to BSD in a Linux world.</a></strong></font>, March, 1999<p>
42:
43: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
44: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
45: <p>
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1.1 deraadt 48: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/products/nfr/testing/">
49: NFR Performance Testing</a> report, written by
50: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
51:
52: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
53: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
54: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
55: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
56: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
57: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
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61: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
62: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
63: February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
64:
65: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
66: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
67: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
68: columns."
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72: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
73: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998.
74: </strong></font><p>
75:
76: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
77: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
78: Implementation, including a brief interview with
79: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.1 deraadt 80: <p>
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83: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
84: Wired Magazine, May 1, 1998, Usenix coverage.</a></strong></font><p>
85:
86: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
87: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
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91: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
92: Wired Magazine, Aug 11, 1997, Beyond HOPE coverage.</a></strong></font><p>
93:
94: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
95: OpenBSD is.
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99: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.5 ian 100: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
101: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
102: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
103: SunExpert Magazine), June 1998, page 81.</a></strong></font><p>
104:
105: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
106: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
107: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
108: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
109: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.1 deraadt 110: <p>
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113: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
114: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
115: July, 1998.</strong></font><p>
116:
117: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
118: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
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121: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
122: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96. Paper edition only.</strong></font><p>
123: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a cheezy picture
124: of project founder Theo de Raadt (watch those wired people do
125: photoshop jobs!).
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129:
130: <h4>Swedish press coverage (in swedish)</h4>
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134: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
135: Datateknik</a> no 20, 1998.</strong></font><p>
136:
137: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
138: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
139: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
140: <p>
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143: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
144: Datateknik</a> no 13, 1998 and
145: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
146: Datateknik</a> no 14, 1998.</strong></font><p>
147:
148: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The 1st
149: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the 2nd which
150: explains the licensing issues and points to our
151: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
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