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DARPA-Funded Linux Security Hub Withers

Posted by michael on from the unglamorous-work dept.

mAriuZ writes "Initially funded by a grant from the Pentagon's DARPA, the Sardonix project aspired to replace the Linux security review process with a public website that meticulously tracks which code has been audited for security holes, and by whom. As conceived by Crispin Cowan, Sardonix was to attract volunteer auditors by automatically ranking them according to the amount of code they've examined, and the number of security holes they've found. Auditors would lose points if a subsequent audit by someone else turned up bugs they missed. ... In the end, though, nobody showed up."

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  1. JewPranks.com Winning The War Against GNAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This just in, JewPranks.com has the GNAA running scared. Fear not fellow slashdot readers, soon those gay niggers will be no more!

  2. AHH! by z00ky · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    if DARPA ends up using Microsoft, we're all gonna die. What Are We Geeks To Do???

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  3. ALL YOUR... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    "It seems the Sardonix lesson is people don't want to play this game, they want to play the Bugtraq game." No actually... All your funds are belong to department of homeland security!

    So in other news...

    SCUM Group offers reward for info on attackers
    Durl McLame

    February 01, 2004 7:05PM EST

    SCUM is issuing a reward of 2,678,600.00 Turkish liras for the identity of the author responsible for authoring that file which rendered our network unusable. "This sophiscated elaborate attack could only come from someone with internal working of the fundamentals of geothermic computing functions relevant to quantum morphic capable nanotechnology." stated SCUM CEO Durl McLame.

    FULL STATEMENT

  4. Anyone know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...who's winning?

    Didn't think so :o)

    1. Re:Anyone know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      7-0 patriots

  5. Superbowl Commercial... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did anyone see the linux Muhammed Ali commercial? Go IBM.

    I shook up the world. Shake stuff up.

    Linux.

    Woo.

  6. Re:Classic misdirection by tealover · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And you can't read worth shit, can you?

    I don't know what shit is worth these days. But I do know what your posts are worth.

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  7. Re:hmm.. quick to go ad-hominem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your shitty posts got mod'd quick, bitch.

    Hahaha.

  8. Captain Obvious saves the day again! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why, if it wasn't because of you, I would have never figured out that Stephen King really didn't die the last 20000 times this troll was posted!

    Gee golly thanks man!

  9. niggawhatyouniggafcufuck you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  10. Janet Jackson's tit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did anyone else see it at the end of the halftime show!?!

  11. HAHAHA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What kind of a stupid name is Crispin anyway? Can't decide whether it reminds me more of corn flakes or power rangers...

  12. OT: Janet Jackson's breast by bigjnsa500 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Did anyone else see the snuff job Justin gave Janet during the halftime show? BOOM.... Janet's right breast. Was that planned or not? Now we know why teen pregnancy is at its highest, just look at anything MTV puts out. Hehehe.. I made a pun, put's out.

    Anyway, flame me, I don't give a crap. But do YOU have a daughter? This is what you have to look forwrard to or are dealing with now.

    Can you say grandchild with your 12-13 year old daughter? THNIK PEOPLE!!!

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    1. Re:OT: Janet Jackson's breast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I don't think it was planned! I only saw it for a split second, the cameras pulled away really fast. It looked just like her tit popped out at the end of her routine. I'm sure there'll be pics all over the Internet tomorrow. IF you find where they are be sure to post the links. ;)

    2. Re:OT: Janet Jackson's breast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Janet's boob, in 852x480 HDTV glory.

    3. Re:OT: Janet Jackson's breast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Sorry I take it back after seening the replay ( http://webpages.charter.net/hiphophead/titty.mpg ) It was definitely planned.

    4. Re:OT: Janet Jackson's breast by bigjnsa500 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      See?....just what I said before.

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    5. Re:OT: Janet Jackson's breast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I'm thinking...that you're wrong.

      This will probably be big news tomorrow morning. In Europe this would be no big deal. Tabloids routinely have topless pictures featured on the frontpage. The US has the among the worst teen pregnancy rates in the industrialized world and yet has one of the strongest population of religious conservatives.

      Unwanted pregnancies have nothing to do with a liberated society (sexually or otherwise), it is more a function of education, something the US is definitely lacking. Also realize that the bulk of the teen pregnancies are coming from the impoverished and low income side of society. The suburbanites watching MTV are not where the majority of teen pregnancies are coming from.

      Refusal to accept this truth (that sexual freedom does not imply unwanted pregnancies and STDs) continues to keep the US as a 2nd world country in terms of public health.

      Really, THINK PEOPLE.

    6. Re:OT: Janet Jackson's breast by Endive4Ever · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      'Tabloids' in Europe lack a lot of credibility. There are also plain black-and-white newspapers in Europe that don't feature nudity on the front page.

      Here in the US, granted, our Tabloids focus on things like 'Lizard Boy impregnated Elvis' with lurid photoshopped pictures on the cover. I guess we're more 'hung up' or someting in what we shovel at the 'lower classes' in the supermarket checkout aisle than they are in Europe.

      Whatever.

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    7. Re:OT: Janet Jackson's breast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What does credibility of tabloids have to do with the fact that they feature nudity on supermarket shelves. They do.

      My point was to refute the notion that public displays of nudity are the cause of teen pregnancies. The OP was claiming that their might be a causal relationship between the display on the Superbowl and the high rate of teen pregnancy in the US. In Europe, there is a much more lax view to sex and nudity in public forums, and yet teenagers over there aren't cranking babies out at the rate they are in the States.

    8. Re:OT: Janet Jackson's breast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      He, I was about to comment on something nothing looking quite right there, when I found out at the last second that she has her right nipple pierced.

      Maybe she should have it checked by a doctor.

      Of course, she is no spring chicken.

    9. Re:OT: Janet Jackson's breast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Riiiight. Only a big deal in the US:

      http://mesnouvelles.branchez-vous.com/Arts/04020 2/ A020202U.html

      http://www.tg5.it/altre_notizie/schede/scheda_03 08 02123849.shtml

      http://www.cnnenespanol.com/2004/escena/02/02/ja ne t.jackson/

      http://www.kurier.at/kultur/516257.php

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3 45 0495.stm

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/us_ sp ort/3450645.stm

      http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2480680

      http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtm l? type=entertainmentNews&storyID=449993&section=news

      http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_pa ge /0,5478,8560710%255E10431,00.html

      http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/americas/ vi ew/69142/1/.html

      http://www.megastar.co.uk/ents/news/2004/02/02/s ME G01MTA3NTcyNjgzNTk.html

      http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/ un comp/articleshow/469981.cms

      http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/stor y_ page/0,5744,8567546%255E2703,00.html

      http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm

      http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-986599 ,0 0.html

      http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2004-02/02/ co ntent_302315.htm

      http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVN ew s/1075731289863_24/?hub=TopStories

      http://entertainment.iafrica.com/news/299907.htm

      http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.a sp ?j=39951882&p=3995zy84

  13. Re:Classic misdirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, a dumbass losing his temper while arguing with a troll (and losing) gets modded up "Informative"? Only on Slashdot...

  14. I didn't see it, but my daughter did! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That timberlake dick said "im gonna get you naked by the end of the show"

    Then he yanked it down and POP!

    My 9 yr old daugter saw the whole thing.

    I am not happy, I don't want to have a slut/crack-head for a 15 year old.

    1. Re:I didn't see it, but my daughter did! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You are a fucking idiot! How would seeing some tits turn your daughter into a crackhead?

      The body is a natural and beautiful thing. Your daughter will be ok so long as you don't start drilling her on this issue.

    2. Re:I didn't see it, but my daughter did! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      The body is a natural
      I'm not sure Janet Jackson's tit is a good starting point for that claim.
  15. Re:Classic misdirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Go away, Troll.