Re: DHS helping to secure open source code

[Shawn Merdinger <shawnmer () gmail com>]

Nice to see...but let's be realistic..1.24 million over three years is
chump change...that's under US $1200 per day...so a couple of grad
students get funded...big whoop :)

Thanks,
--scm


On 1/17/06, Saqib Ali <docbook.xml () gmail com> wrote:
> For people who doubt the secure coding practices in open source projects:
>
> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/dhs_funding_ope.html
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1909946,00.asp
> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6025579.html
>
> DHS is funding the security analysis of the source-code for the
> following OpenSource applications:
>
> Apache, BIND, Ethereal, KDE, Linux, Firefox, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSSL
> and MySQL
>
> --
> Saqib Ali, CISSP
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