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Title	Software security and the 'blue bridge of death'
Type	Opinion
Source	IDG News Service 05/25/2006
Summary	If civil engineers built bridges in the same fashion in which software developers write code, people would face the 'blue bridge of death' every morning going to work, says Mary Ann Davidson, chief security officer for database giant Oracle Corp. continue

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