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Subject: Re: Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Ethereal Newsgroups: gmane.network.ethereal.devel Date: 2006-03-06 21:20:26 GMT (3 years, 17 weeks, 1 day, 7 hours and 40 minutes ago) Gerald Combs wrote: > Andreas Sikkema quoted from http://lwn.net/Articles/174426/ : > > >>"On the other hand, ethereal shows a very low defect rate, which can be >>hard to square with the long list of security advisories from that >>project." > > > <rant> > How is this hard to square? I (and others) have been busting our > collective asses over the past year or so to find and fix security > defects in Ethereal. Both the low defect rate _and_ the long list of > advisories are a direct result of this. Sheesh. > </rant> Cool down Gerald. The article reads as if it was written by an amateur, not a professional with a proper grasp of sentence structure. Would you rather take the M$ path? Not admit to defects until they get exploited? |
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