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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.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 26 2014, @01:58AM
Well, it is not a large amount of money - but it is better than nothing at all. Over to you, USA, how much are you going to contribute to checking open source software next year?
I'm certain NSA has already spent quite a bit more than $1m auditing open source. They are just not always ready to release their findings. (similar is probably true of GCHQ)