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Re: Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Ethereal

From:  Andrew Hood <ajhood-AT-fl.net.au>
To:  Ethereal development <ethereal-dev-AT-ethereal.com>
Subject:  Re: Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Ethereal
Date:  Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:20:26 +1100
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

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? :-)

-- 
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
                -- Dr. Who


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