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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. Hi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hi

  2. SO DOES HILLARY CLINTOON by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Only Hillary wants to destroy this country by offshoring to India one job at a time!

    Note that now that it's an election year, Hillary's Tata Consultancy Services cronies have removed nearly every reference to her from their website. I wonder how many rupees crore they contributed to the ELECT HILLARY '08 campaign?

    1. Re:SO DOES HILLARY CLINTOON by Penguinisto · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Dude - I did NOT want to know about Hillary's Tatas...

      (the mental image... holy crap what a bad evil mental image.... it's like the Janet Reno brain-sear of 1998 all friggin' over again!)

      /P

      --
      Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
  3. fr1st Psot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    during p7ay, 7his