US-CERT's FUD

Posted by tadelste on Jan 5, 2006 10:12 AM
By NewsForge
Mail this story
Web version

Everywhere you look in the trade press today, you'll find glowing misrepresentations of US-CERT's latest annual summary of vulnerabilities discovered in 2005. If you take the summary findings at face value, you would likely conclude that Windows -- with 812 reported vulnerabilities -- is a much safer operating system than something called "Unix/Linux," which totaled 2,328. The US-CERT summaries have become the fodder for a FUD festival, and many scribes sympathetic to the Microsoft cause go out of their way to make sure the real picture never emerges.

Full Story

Printed at http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/51248/index.html