“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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