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US Government Studies Open Source Quality

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the prefer-just-to-stay-off-of-dhs-radar dept.

anadgouda writes "US Department of Homeland Security has released a report on open source quality in an effort to study the security of open source. 31 popular open source packages were studied as part of this effort. From the article: 'Coverity's report, Stacking up the LAMP stack: a study of open source quality, was produced as part of a $1.24m, three-year DHS Science and Technology Directorate effort to evaluate and improve the security of open source.'"

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  1. Re:So they submitted Bugs, Right? by rs79 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I hope they looked at DJBDNS and QMAIL.

    All software should be that good.

    If they found bugs in Bind, I'm not iterested in the rest of the report. That's just pork.

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