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PHP, Perl and Python pass Homeland Security test

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 1 comment
ZDNet Australia; By Robert Vamosi 		Mail this story
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Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects. Eleven projects made the list: Amanda, NTP, OpenPAM, OpenVPN, Overdose, Perl, PHP, Postfix, Python, Samba, and TCL.

[As Slashdot points out, compare this article to Information Week's sensationalist gutter reporting posted earlier. - Sander]

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Abe ·
Microsoft wouldn't allow checking their code afraid to be declared not fixable and would have to re-code it from scratch.

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