My Involvement With Debian Security
Since joining the Debian Project I've been interested in working on security issues. The first thing that I started doing in this direction was performing source code audits of packages contained within the Debian archives.
After a lot of successful security reports and fixed packages, this work eventually became an official part of the Debian proejct:
Joining the Security Team
After being involved with auditing code for a while, and producing multiple Debian Security Advisories, and exploits I was invited to join the Debian Security Team on a trial basis.
In the interests of making the Security Team more transparent I've produced some notes on how this works internally: