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Re: latest increase in the number of security advisories



On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:29:27PM -0500, Oleg wrote:

> There seemed to be a LOT more security advisories lately. Is there any
> particular reason for this? Was it a result of adopting automatic tools
> like valgrind by the security teams or a purely random fluctuation?

It is a result of a general, widespread increase in the discovery of
security holes.  As for the reasons for that, one can only speculate, but so
far there is no sign of a slowdown.

-- 
 - mdz



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