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Coverity Reports Open Source Security Making Great Strides

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the patting-yourself-on-the-back dept.

Coverity is claiming they have found and helped to fix more than 7,500 security flaws in open source software since the inception of the governmentally backed project designed to harden open source software. The company has also identified eleven projects that have been especially responsive in correcting security problems. "Eleven projects have been awarded the newly announced status of Rung 2, including those known as Amanda, NTP, OpenPAM, OpenVPN, Overdose, Perl, PHP, Postfix, Python, Samba, and TCL."

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  1. Anyone else by Bloke+down+the+pub · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone else read that as "Coventry"? Bloody shit-hole, I went there once and nobody spoke to me.

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    It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
  2. Re:Overdose by PetiePooo · · Score: 4, Funny

    What is Overdose? I've searched Google, but all I get is links to Heroin recovery groups...

    Ah, nevermind. Its a Yahoo! chat client. I should have searched Sourceforge instead...