BleepingComputer.com: Homeland Security Helps Secure Open-source Code

<img src='/images/misc/big_brother.jpg' style='float:right' vspace='8' hspace='8'> <b>The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is extending the scope of its protection to open-source software.<br /> <br /> Through its Science and Technology Directorate, the department has given $1.24 million in funding to Stanford University, Coverity and Symantec to hunt for security bugs in open-source software and to improve Coverity's commercial tool for source code analysis...</b><br /><br />In the effort, which the government agency calls the "Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, Open Source Hardening Project," Stanford and Coverity will build and maintain a system that does daily scans of code contributed to popular open-source projects...<br /> <br /> By Joris Evers Staff Writer, CNET News.com<br /> Published: January 10, 2006, 5:05 PM PST <br /><br /> <div class='newslinks'><img src='http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/public/style_images/1/cs_page.gif'> <b>Link: <a href='http://news.com.com/Homeland+Security+helps+secure+open-source+code/2100-1002_3-6025579.html?tag=nefd.lede' target='_blank'><font color='red'>Article listing the software to be scanned at CNET News.</font></a><br />

Shove this up Microsoft's CD-ROM drive!