openbsd use in the military

Just to clear this up, people have been speculating as to whether the military actually uses OpenBSD. I find this speculation to be rather stupid. Of course they do. I have personally been in Air Force installations within the Pentagon that were using OpenBSD. In fact, I was asked to help fix one of them. There isn't really a policy on which machines and operating systems can be used, there are guidelines on how they are to be deployed, and the military has site security audits. I wouldn't say it is in "wide use" at all, but it is in fact being used for things like nameservers and webservers. I haven't seen pf in use as a firewall, but i have seen ipf on solaris and linux.

alex Received on Tue Apr 22 22:57:42 2003