Google has a long history of supporting the development of free software through its Summer of Code program.
Giving everyone a chance to see program code is one way of improving this.
After making a copy of the file, the hacker ran it through a code-breaking program that exposed the passwords as plain text.
On one system, 74 user accounts had privileges enabling them to change program source code without supervisory oversight, the report stated.
The program, code named Gaia for the Greek goddess of the earth, was attacked in a lightning raid taking less than two days last December, the person said.
For example, did you know that the founder of Instagram has no formal engineering training, but rather was a marketer who taught himself to program and code at night?
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The iPhone Dev Team has accused him of stealing their code to create the program, and many in the hacker community instead credit Erica Sadun, a blogger for the Unofficial Apple Weblog.
Some may argue that we are beyond hardware and that the real building blocks are knowing how to code and how to program, but I believe that the next wave of true innovation will come from the intersection of new hardware and new software.
We do know that the consequences of running a voucher program through the tax code could be enormous.
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But they are refusing to allow independent analysis of the program's source code, on the grounds of commercial confidentiality.
If the borrowed open-source code is integral to a larger program, that program becomes a "derivative work, " subject to various claims--e.g.
In 1995, Saddam launched a new program using a converted training aircraft code-named L29.
Levin's software scans a given program, looking for strings of code that might be open source, then identifies the licenses that apply.
The code release is a milestone in the development program for Ubuntu's phone experience, and enables developers to port the platform to other devices.
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Would a Medicare subsidy program be run through the tax code?
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Dr. Davis has offered to provide at no cost to the government the conversion of 100, 000 lines of software code on a mainframe computer to demonstrate his program's abilities.
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Fast-forward three months, to now, and Girls Who Code clubs are an important catalyst for expanding the program into the school year.
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Android has been the favorite of malicious code writers since August 2010, when the first Trojan program targeting the OS was detected.
"Essentially we know the ZIP code of vessels within a certain tissue, we can program the address on the surface of the cell, " he said.
Obama was interrupted three times by a woman from the anti-war group Code Pink, who appeared to be protesting both the drone program and the Guantanamo prison.
Since the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) became part of the income tax code in 1975, it has quietly become the largest cash transfer program in the United States.
The omnipresent obligations associated with the law are already addressed throughout all phases of military planning and mission execution, by virtue of the DoD Law of War Program, the Law of Armed Conflict, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and Rules of Engagement.
Romney is currently offering an economic program that involves minor tinkering at the margins of the tax code.
Kerberos gained pre-eminence because it is clever, and because its developers, computer scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, released the source code, which let security experts around the world debug and refine the program line by line.
Every element of the XO's software is open-source and malleable: Its creators hope that kids in Mongolia and Peru will someday program their own applications for the devices and even modify its source code to improve its operating system.
The machine does not allow modifications to its ROM (because it has an O in the middle), but the team was able to use a technique called return-oriented programming to modify how the machine executes existing code, taking the bits they want and, ultimately, devising a way to re-program its behavior by simply inserting a cartridge into a slot -- presumably after blowing on it for good luck.
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The program then destroys a host of files based on file extension, specifically targeting C language code files, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, among others.
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