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EU Spending €1M for Security Audit of Open Source

posted by janrinok on Thursday December 25 2014, @01:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-making-sure dept.

"gewg_" writes:

Member of the European Parliament Julia Reda blogs

Security and liberty don't have to be opposites. I want the European Union to focus its energy and funds on projects that increase both the safety and the autonomy of its people at the same time. At my proposal, next year's EU budget will include a step in that direction:
€1 million of the EU's €40 million pilot project fund will be spent towards open source software security.

The European Union's interoperability page says

The European Parliament is funding a security audit of the free and open source solutions used by the Parliament and the European Commission. Last Wednesday, the EP allocated €1 million for the audit project, to be carried out by the EC Directorate General for Informatics (DIGIT). The project should also come up with best practices for code review and quality assessments of free software and open standards funded by the EU.

 
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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 25 2014, @04:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 25 2014, @04:55AM (#129043)

    Please point to the place on the doll where the bad man touched you.

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  • (Score: 2) by cafebabe on Thursday December 25 2014, @02:40PM

    by cafebabe (894) on Thursday December 25 2014, @02:40PM (#129104) Journal

    It may have involved [soylentnews.org] the bad man's left hand [postimg.org].

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    • (Score: 2) by edIII on Friday December 26 2014, @04:27AM

      by edIII (791) on Friday December 26 2014, @04:27AM (#129231)

      "That's not my bag baby"

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