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This week at LWN: Counting vulnerabilities

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 7 comments
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Recently, Jeff Jones posted a survey comparing the number of vulnerabilities found in the first 90 days of Microsoft Vista deployments against those of a number of other operating systems. It may not come as a surprise that Mr. Jones, who is a Microsoft employee, found that Vista was significantly more secure than the alternatives. There has been no shortage of such surveys over the years, and it may be tempting to write this one off as another bit of random FUD. Still, it's good to have an answer to such things.

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Link broken?

jdixon ·
Another one of those where the link brings you back to the LXer home page.
Scott_Ruecker ·
that's two links in two days...I better watch out!!

:-)

A functional link and some comments about "disclosure"

jhansonxi ·
This was posted at Tom's Hardware a few days ago: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32596/118/

Here is a repost of my comments there: -------------------------------- Jun 22, 2007 15:25 Keyword: "disclosed"

Open source will always have more disclosed vulnerabilities because they've got nothing to hide.

It's like researching sexual behaviors in modern America by publicly polling conservative politicians and porn stars about their sex life.
sbenitezb ·
So FOSS devs are porn stars? :)
jdixon ·
> So FOSS devs are porn stars? :)

You'd have to ask ESR about that. :)

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