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Dhs Bug Hunt Returns Mixed Reaction

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The results of a Homeland Security Department-funded bug hunt spanning 40 popular open-source programs has thus far met ambivalence from the open-source community. While many projects are using the results to improve their software, others are bemoaning the high number of false positives.

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jsusanka ·
"But Ben Laurie, a chief developer of Apache, said he finds the project puzzling. He wants to know why the agency would pay a third party to search for bugs, yet “make no contribution to fixing them.”"

I wondered this myself - and why aren't they doing this same thing to the proprietary products whose intellectual property they hold in such high regard.

maybe I am just being ungrateful but this whole project to me never smelled right from the start.

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