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Subject: Re: Looking for an open-source thesis idea
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Eric Curtin <ericcurtin17@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hope I'm not bothering you. I'm looking for a masters thesis idea, ...

Here's a report claiming 70% of security bugs involve memory errors.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chrome-70-of-all-security-bugs-are-memory-safety-issues/
Build a tool to find or fix those?

Another report I saw on Slashdot recently said lots of web vulnerabilities
were due to problems in widely used open source libraries.