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<h2><font color=#e00000>Media Coverage</strong><hr></h2>
<h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/22/1157259&mode=thread
<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>,
Slashdot, October 22, 1999
</strong></font><p>
In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
<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>,
Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
</strong></font><p>
Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
<a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
<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>,
New York Times, October 11, 1999
</strong></font><p>
Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
read the NY Times on the web).<p>
<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>,
Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
</strong></font><p>
Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
</strong></font><p>
Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong><a href=http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/technology/stories/990930/2929913.html>Calgarian heads team ensuring OpenBSD security</a>,
Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
</strong></font><p>
Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
<li><strong>
Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
</strong></font><p>
Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
with the
town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his terminal:
<blockquote>
<code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
Escape character is '^]'.<br>
<br>
OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
</code>
</blockquote>
<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<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>
<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
</strong></font><p>
A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg183.htm">Open source has roots in the Net</a>, USA Today, Sept. 20, 1999
</strong></font><p>
Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
"Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
operating system in the world."<p>
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/business/Even_better_than_Linux+.shtml">Even better than Linux</a>, Boston Globe, Sept 16, 1999
</strong></font><p>
Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not).<p>
<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<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>,
ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.</strong></font><p>
Lead developer Theo de Raadt was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User
Group (AUUG) meeting in Melbourne.<p>
<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
</strong></font><p>
Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
<a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
A Secure and Open Society</a>,
ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><p>
The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
of OpenBSD.<p>
<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><p>
"CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
way down the page).
<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><p>
The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><p>
"The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
available."
<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><p>
"IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
</strong></font><p>
Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
treatment to the alternatives.<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="">Safe and friendly read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>,
DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
"Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><p>
Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
<p>
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
<a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999</strong></font><p>
This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
<a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
February, 1999</strong></font><p>
A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
over to OpenBSD.
<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
February, 1999</strong></font><p>
"Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
columns."
<p>
<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
</strong></font><p>
A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
Implementation, including a brief interview with
Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><p>
Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
<A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><p>
A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
(the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
the WebServer version in HTML does not).
<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
July, 1998</strong></font><p>
Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><p>
A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><p>
Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
OpenBSD is.
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<h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in swedish)</font></h3><p>
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><p>
An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
<p>
<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
<a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><p>
Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
explains the licensing issues and points to our
<a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
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<h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/bsd/index.html">BSD Magazine</a>,
Sept. 28, 1999
</strong></font><p>
ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
translating and reprinting articles from
<a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
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