According to research by the non-profit MITRE Corporation, there were 47 critical vulnerabilities in Linux found last year, up from just 27 in 2008.

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It was a blind man, Bob Gildea, who got me "hooked" on braille in 1969, enlisting me as a computer programmer on a joint MIT-Mitre Corporation project that allowed teachers within the Atlanta schools to have materials quickly translated into braille for blind students integrated into regular classes.

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