[SystemSafety] Static Analysis

[Derek M Jones]

Les,

> a testimony to a US Congress oversight committee on security vulnerabilities
> in the Obama care system: healthcare.gov.  It makes you weep.

Weep because it contains so much nonsense that people might
take seriously?

500 million lines of code?

Ok, so they added up the source of Linux say 50 Million,
Microsoft Windows was 40 Million last time I heard but lets
say another 50 Million.

Then there are all the BSD variants, but they are not large,
say 20 Million all in.  They probably have some Solaris,
Oracle (no idea how much code is in that), plus all the
IBM stuff.  Let's say another 150 Million.

Well that gets us half way to 500 Million

> Crowd Sourced Investigations LLC, Testimony of Morgan Wright, CEO, Before
> the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology,

"We are a no-cost resource for federal, state and local
law enforcement that uses the power of social media and crowdsourcing to 
solve
crime, return the missing and protect our children."

I'm sure they are very good at this.  They need to take a take a few
classes before saying anything too technical about software.

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> http://www.projectauditors.com/Papers/Troubled_Projects/HHRG-113-SY-WState-M
> Wright-20131119.pdf
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> Mike Rothon
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:25 PM
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> Subject: Re: [SystemSafety] Static Analysis
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> On 25/02/14 20:40, Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:
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> It`'s hard to believe. Does stuff like this happen in the safety-critical
> area to leading companies still?
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> I appreciate that these may not be because of a lack of static analysis, but
> this caught my eye a little while back:
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> http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240207488/US-researchers-find-25-securit
> y-vulnerabilities-in-SCADA-systems
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> And it was interesting to see this mentioned in the Graham Cluley blog
> linked from The Guardian article.
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> ReVuln's website declares that it can provide details of undisclosed and
> unpatched vulnerabilities in SCADA/HMI/ICS systems. These are the types of
> industrial control systems which are used by critical infrastructure such as
> water treatment, power stations and gas pipelines.
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> Mike
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