__/ [ Oliver Wong ] on Wednesday 26 July 2006 19:31 \__
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> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1904464.rQfXSpEOBN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Bugle Goes Googling for Source Code Flaws
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>> | The world's most popular search engine can be used to pinpoint
>> | software security bugs in source code available on the Internet,
>> | according to a new research project launched by a U.K.-based researcher.
>> |
>> | The project, called Bugle, is a collection of Google search queries
>> | that can be used to identify some of the most common vulnerabilities
>> | in open-source code indexed by the search giant.
>> `----
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>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1994003,00.asp
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>> Another merit of OSS... think of all the /automated/ peer review.
>> malicious
>> use has been possible for quite some time (download then scan), but here's
>> a
>> benevolent brute-force approach.
>>
>> There are some speculations that Google new service (to be unveiled on
>> Thursday) will resemble SourceForge.
>
> This is a great idea. You know those programs that you can run while
> your computer is idle to search for extra terrestial life, or crunch prime
> numbers? How about a program which crunches through open source software,
> detecting bugs and vulnerabilities? Then everyone in the world can
> contribute to OSS, regardless of programming skill level, just by donating
> some of their spare CPU cycles.
There is something else which is beneficial the humanity:
the World Community Grid (worldcommunitygrid.org).
There are more such projects that help science, but I can't
recall their names. Some are just solving some
highly-complex mathematical problems, but primarily for
admiration rather than real benefit. I think that the human
genome and DNA sequencing projects also had clients
(multiple platform s and Open Source) released recently.
Another project I can think of is Majestic 12, which is a
search engines that crawls and indexed pages using people's
idle time and bandwidth allowance (if any), as well as
capacity.
Best wishes,
Roy
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