Technical Leverage: Dependencies Are a Mixed Blessing
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One year ago, Mack and Schroer captured in this column1 the current crisis faced by software security quality control:
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: IEEE Security & Privacy
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1558-4046', '1540-7993']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/msec.2021.3065627