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OpenBSD Lands $2 Million In DARPA Money

Posted by timothy on from the laundering-through-pennsylvania dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Canada's National Post is reporting today that DARPA is (indirectly) funding $2-million (US) to Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD. The article is available here." Update: 04/07 21:01 GMT by T : As several readers have pointed out, this blurb should credit instead The Globe and Mail rather than the National Post.

4 of 326 comments (clear)

  1. Hacker by arvindn · · Score: 4, Informative
    The U.S. military believes the work of a Calgary hacker may be its best bet to protect its computer networks from so-called cyber-terrorist attacks.

    Non-techie news site gets "hacker" right? Very surprising.

  2. Re:cash versus equipement by NetJunkie · · Score: 4, Informative

    Equipment doesn't pay bills. My grocery store won't take a hard drive as payment. Many of these large projects have core developers that work on it full time. They have to make money to live. That's where this money is going. If you read the article it says they can now hire a few more full time developers which will get more features in the software faster.

  3. Errr... National Post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    "U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker

    By DAVID AKIN
    From Monday's Globe and Mail"

    I think you've attributed it to the wrong paper, that's quite clearly from the Globe and Mail (as if the url, globetechnology.com wasn't a give away), the other national Canadian paper.

  4. Lack of vulnerabilities by deepchasm · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the article:

    OpenBSD, which does not develop as many products as Microsoft, says only one vulnerability or hole has been found in its software in the past seven years.

    Erm, shouldn't that be "only one remote hole in the default install"?