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

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From: Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:20:26 +1100
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? :-)

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