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

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From: Andreas Sikkema <h323@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:28:08 +0100
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 08:20 +1100, Andrew Hood wrote:
> 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.

Jonathan Corbet is anything but a clueless journalist IMHO. He might be
more of a kernel hacker than a journalist, but that is just guessing ;-)

Anyway, guys, keep up the good work!

-- 
Andreas Sikkema