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Google is spearheading a volunteer workforce it hopes will become the centralized authority for responding to security issues in open source software. oCERT, short for the open source computer emergency response team, will aim to remediate security vulnerabilities and exploits in a wide range of open source programs by …

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  1. Mike Bunyan

    back door into AV

    This could easily become Google back door into providing antivirus tools, for a small fee...

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Bad Words...

    "aim to remediate security vulnerabilities"

    Remediate? Really? That's one of the most clumsy and inelegant pseudo-words I've ever seen.

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  3. Rob Holland

    Remediating your use of dictionaries

    n. The act or process of correcting a fault or deficiency: remediation of a learning disability.

    c/o: dictionary.com

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