, SecurityFocus 2003-08-08
Declaring hidden malware to be "a growing threat," the National Security Agency's cybersecurity chief is calling on Congress to fund a new National Software Assurance Center dedicated to developing advanced techniques for detecting backdoors and logic bombs in large software applications.
Anonymous
actually i think this is more to cover their own butts since they use and depend on a lot of commercial s/w and are unsure of what else could be done to the s/w since they don't always have access to the code.
as for finding security bugs in s/w - if you follow this...
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