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Re:How a software glitch kept thousands from reaching 911 by djyaz1200 on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @02:49PM (#8489042)
This software should be open sourced for peer review. It's too critical a system for a black box.
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Re:How a software glitch kept thousands from reaching 911 by th3iedkid on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @08:54AM (#8492439)
>>critical a system for a black box

Didn't open-source systems like SSL take quite some time before vulnerabilities like heartbleed surfaced as code-bugs/code-vulnerabilities?

Also to directly address the issue of critical systems and robustness, am not sure how far reaching open-sourcing might be in tending to issues.Are there projects that have made the transition for good?

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