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From: andrewr  <andrewr@slack.net>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
cc: Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>,
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Subject: Re: Projects to improve security (related to C) 
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On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.980722123248.28671K-100000@bytor.rush.net> Pat Lynch writes:
> : I'd certainly get involved in this, I wonder if Al would as well =) =) =)
> 
> The history of these inititives has been somehwat less than
> encouraging.  We tried this a while ago and got some, but not a lot of
> tangible results.
> 
> The biggest problem before was that many people doing the audit didn't
> know what to look for, so missed a lot of things.....


Which is why I am going to ask people who I know for sure know what to
look for. 


> 
> Also, it is a huge effort to coordinate.  The effort also suffered
> from lack of time of some of the participants.

Another thing I am going to ask from the participants is that they really
DO have time.  It's up to them to make the correct choice.. The choice to
help out and make their OS better, or to slack and hurt the project.

Andrew

> 
> Warner
> 
> 


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