Open Source failure analysis tool released for Linux

["Kenneth R. van Wyk" <Ken () krvw com>]

Greetings,

Saw an announcement today on DesktopLinux.com (see 
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6923692411.html for the full scoop) about 
an open source tool to analyze software failures on (IA-32) Linux systems.  
Although not specifically security-related, the vendor claims that the tool 
will help improve software reliability.

I believe that we don't do enough to analyze and learn from software failures.  
Look at how other engineering disciplines analyze their failures and then 
learn from them -- bridge collapses, airplane crashes, etc., all come to 
mind.  Even the vulnerability advisories that we get from vendors, CERT, 
etc., don't typically focus on the root cause (no pun intended), but the 
solution set.  That's fine for the people that run computers, but not for the 
people that write the software.

Cheers,

Ken van Wyk
-- 
KRvW Associates, LLC
http://www.KRvW.com