Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Ethereal

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:24:41 -0600
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>