SAN FRANCISCO--Software companies are taking colleges to task for not producing computer science graduates who know how to create secure programs.
In a two-hour panel session Tuesday at the Secure Software Forum here, Oracle, Microsoft and other software makers attempted to analyze why flawed software is still overwhelmingly the rule and not the exception in the industry. A major contributor, the companies said, is college students' lack of a good grounding in secure programming. http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5579014.html -- Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net http://www.paccomp.com Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D "All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies." -- Dr. John Arbuthnot (1667-1735) -- Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net http://www.paccomp.com Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D "All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies." -- Dr. John Arbuthnot (1667-1735) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
