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Title	Open source security bugs uncovered
Type	News
Source	Techworld.com 01/09/2008
Summary	A U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) bug-fixing scheme has uncovered an average of one security glitch per 1,000 lines of code in 180 widely used open source software projects. continue

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