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                     16: <h2>Conferences and other Events.</h2>
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1.6       deraadt    20: <li><strong>
                     21: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
                     22: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
                     23: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.4       millert    24:
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1.7     ! deraadt    26: <li><strong>
        !            27: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
        !            28: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.1       deraadt    29: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
                     30: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.4       millert    31: good things about our stance on security...
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1.6       deraadt    34: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
                     35: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstation running
                     36: OpenBSD 2.1.
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1.6       deraadt    39: <li><strong>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</strong><br>
1.3       provos     40:
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1.6       deraadt    42: <li><strong>
                     43: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
                     44: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio</a></strong><br>
1.2       deraadt    45: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically turned
1.6       deraadt    46: into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about subsystems
                     47: in which future problems may be encountered.
                     48: The terminal room PC's ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1.1       deraadt    49:
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1.6       deraadt    51: <li><strong>
                     52: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
                     53: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
                     54: June 15-19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
                     55: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
                     56: and normal tracks.  The terminal room PC's ran OpenBSD 2.3.<p>
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                     58: We sold many CDROMs.  The first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.2       deraadt    59:
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1.6       deraadt    61: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
1.7     ! deraadt    62: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.2       deraadt    63: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
                     64: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
                     65: team's process and the lessons the team learned.  The talk concentrated
                     66: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
                     67: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
                     68:
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1.6       deraadt    70: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org>
1.7     ! deraadt    71: Defcon VI. July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.6       deraadt    72: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box.  It was involved
                     73: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
                     74: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
                     75: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.<p>
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                     77: Almost 100 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again).  The primates at <a
                     78: href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought the second style of
                     79: OpenBSD t-shirt to the conference and sold almost 200 of them.  The
                     80: proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
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1.6       deraadt    83: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>
                     84: OSSD. August 21, 1998. San Jose, California, USA.</strong></a><br>
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