Open source software is a critical part of our national security infrastructure, but one that government is entirely neglecting. Federal agencies rely on OpenSSL, liblzma, etc. just as much as the private sector.

We need a division of federal government whose job isn’t to find and exploit security holes (like the NSA), but fix them. A sort of a national security agency, but that actually does…that.

@waldoj National Computing Safety Board
@DavidReed I really think that’s the right paradigm! The NTSB is such a model.
@DavidReed Such a *good* model, I should have written. :)