11 Open Source Projects cleared as Secure?

11 Open Source Projects cleared as Secure?
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LinuxSecurity.com: 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. This list of projects may seem fair and equitable. And certainly, Perl, Postfix, Amanda and others can be very secure. But PHP? Granted, the project is done with a contract from DHS as well as association with Stanford University. And their certification boasts... Original Source: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/133066?rdf Learn more about 11 Open Source Projects cleared as Secure?


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