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:ZDNet: Secure Open Source at Least a Year Away
ZDNet: Secure Open Source at Least a Year Away
May 5, 2006, 01 :00 UTC (8 Talkback[s]) (8355 reads)

(Other stories by Dana Blankenhorn)

"Following Coverity's announcement yesterday that their Prevent system had caught a very dangerous bug in X Windows, I was given the chance to talk with their chief scientist, Andy Chou.

"The news he had was bad or good, depending on how you look at it. It will take over a year to make major open source projects secure, and meantime each unpatched bug will present real danger to users..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
By Cromm! Will this never cease?How abou ...   FUD!   
Bob Robertson
May 5, 2006, 01:38:13
 
will still be a pie in the sky myth than ...   And Microsoft Security   
Jason Greenwood
May 5, 2006, 01:42:05
 
I realise that editors have to keep titl ...   title of article is misleading   
wildpossum
May 5, 2006, 02:43:34
 
So every *EVERY* bug that Coverity finds ...   Straw men, revisited   
Joe User
May 5, 2006, 02:47:07
 
Why, VISTA will be released, of course!W ...   Guess what's going to happen in a year?   
GreyGeek
May 5, 2006, 03:07:49
 
Ok, once again, I've gotten carried  ...   Stupidity or ignorance?   
Vox
May 5, 2006, 06:09:26
 
Another possibility is malice.  If it co ...   Re: Stupidity or ignorance?   
Charles Hixson
May 5, 2006, 17:16:05
 
There is another possibility, false adve ...   Re: Stupidity or ignorance?   
Steve Stites
May 5, 2006, 22:52:50
 
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