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The EU also funds Minix 3 development, though that is more about reliability than security.
by tormeh 12y ago
The EU also funds Minix 3 development, though that is more about reliability than security.
- masklinn 12y agoThe pypy project also benefited from EU grants early in its history.
- cbd1984 12y agoThe thing about security is that it touches everything. Ease of use? If something's hard to use, it's easy to confuse people into doing insecure things. Security issue. Unreliable? Security depends on predictable behavior, and failure modes are often unpredictable. Security issue. Proprietary protocol? Even if it wasn't intentionally backdoored, you don't know its real attack surface, because you don't know all of the verbs it contains. Verbs imply actions, actions imply changes of state, changes of state imply the Dark Side... uh, security concerns. Security issue. Performance? Even aside from timing attacks and simple DoSing, things often behave oddly when pushed to a limit, especially if that limit involves otherwise-hidden race conditions. Security issue.
- carussell 12y agoNot anymore. The money from those grants is gone.