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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 25 2014, @11:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 25 2014, @11:08PM (#129176)

    Europe already does plenty about this. Or, rather, the BND, DGSE, GCHQ, and their friends are all auditing software like madmen, looking for bugs to exploit. They're just not as photogenic as the NSA, with that evil American black-glass building and all.

    The EU software is getting audited by European professionals, have no fear of that. They're just working against the EU and for the national governments (or, in the DGSE's case, God only knows who they're actually working for, because they sure aren't working for the French government). And that's the thing: when you say "can easily hurt a nation," you've got it backwards...

  • (Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday December 26 2014, @02:17PM

    by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 26 2014, @02:17PM (#129276) Journal

    “…the BND, DGSE, GCHQ…” “…just not as photogenic as the NSA…”

    They are the same organization: Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, Fourteen Eyes,… [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday December 26 2014, @02:24PM

    by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 26 2014, @02:24PM (#129278) Journal

    Oops, I proofread my other comment but didn't catch how bad it sounded; it was meant as a brief statement in support of your comment.

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