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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Oliver Wong ] on Wednesday 26 July 2006 19:31 \__
>
>>
>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1904464.rQfXSpEOBN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Bugle Goes Googling for Source Code Flaws
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | 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.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1994003,00.asp
>>>
>>> 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.
>
I still have a very cloudy vision of a super super computing cluster
spanning the globe, and including everything which can offer any
processing cycles at all... it's very SF, I know, but it also strikes
me that on a planet with sharply limited resources, we will need to find
better methods of sharing what's available than the present approach
(that being based on who has the biggest guns).
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