Google and the Linux Foundation are prioritizing funds to underwrite two full-time maintainers for Linux kernel security development. Gustavo Silva and Nathan Chancellor will focus on maintaining and improving kernel security and associated initiatives in order to ensure the world's most pervasive open source software project is sustainable for decades to come. A recently published open source contributor survey from the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) has identified a need for additional work on security in open source software. While there are thousands involved in developing the Linux kernel this contribution… [Continue Reading]
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