This is interesting. "The program, called the Open Source Hardening Project, is sponsored by the DHS and carried out by Coverity and Stanford University. Launched in March 2006, the US$300,000 project was initially launched to review the code of 180 open source software projects frequently used by developers of government websites and application developers."
So our tax dollars are going to fixing security flaws in open source software. This article has more details, but it sounds like they're working on the foundation projects and making good progress. Sounds like a good thing and at $300K, pretty cheap.
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