Study Confirms the Government Produces the Buggiest Software

Sparrowvsrevolution writes in with a link to a Forbes story about the lackluster code produced by government agencies."Humans aren't very good at writing secure code. But they're worst at it when they're paid to do it for the U.S. government, according to a study that will be presented at the Black Hat Europe security conference in Amsterdam later this week. Chris Wysopal, chief technology officer of bug-hunting firm Veracode plans to give a talk breaking down a vulnerability analysis of 9,910 software applications over the second half of 2010 and 2011. Government-built applications came out far worse than those created by the commercial software industry or the finance industry. Only 16% of government web applications were secure by OWASP standards, compared with 24% of finance industry software and 28% of commercial software. By SANS standards, only 18% of government apps passed, compared with 28% of finance industry apps and 34% of commercial software. Wysopal and others blame the difference on a lack of accountability of federal contract developers, who aren't held to security standards and are even paid extra to fix their bugs after creating them."

Healthcare.exe, Waronterror.exe

[Anonymous Coward]

This program has performed an illegal operation and must be shut down.

If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.

Laugh

[koan]

Obvious loop hole...
"and are even paid extra to fix their bugs after creating them."

"even paid extra to fix their bugs after creating"

[SwashbucklingCowboy]

Reminds me of this Dilbert comic [dilbert.com]

Thats only the US Gov't

[Spy Handler]

In some other countries, government employees are smart and work hard. In South Korea for instance the gov't software all run on IE6 activeX plugins and are rock-solid.

Re:Gov't should be ideal for secure, bug-free deve

[ColdWetDog]

Part of the government wrote the code for the space shuttle, the most bug-free program ever written. Seriously, look it up, that code is amazing.

That's it! Get rid of those nasty high level languages and get back to the bare metal with assembly [wikipedia.org]. None of this new fangled junky stuff.

Kids these days. Never learn anything from their betters.

LOL

[nthwaver]

Goverment are faget asshole too busy sucking gay faget cock to write good codes. We need to get rid of goverment and set up constitutional anarchy and send all the fagets away to France or some other faget country.

You'd be surprised how much software from all business models is written by queer folk! Microsoft actually lobbies the state of Washington for gender-neutral marriage so that they can poach more gay programmers. Google does the same. Your OS, browser and phone were probably designed by fagets. The field of computer science was founded by Alan Turing, an internationally infamous faget. Face it dude, queers are too smart and useful, you'll never get rid of us.