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Originally Posted by Bungleau
I think Disraeli gets credit for saying that statistics are like a bikini... what they reveal is interesting, but what they conceal is intriguing.
I can't figure out exactly what those percentages mean. Are they percentages of the total number of vulnerabilities discovered? Are they of the number of vulnerabilities discovered and fixed? Not fixed?
They're just numbers. Here's my list: - Apple - 173,503
- Linux - 340,044
- Microsoft - 42,034
- Stone tablets - 1,088,300,240
Wow... Microsoft's great! Or... is it that stone tablets are great? Depends if big is better than little.
Interesting as well that five different windows versions are broken out separately, but all the different Linux variations are lumped together.
Figures lie. Liars figure. No one gets a free pass at the bash yet. |
Stone tablets for the win!
Linux is lumped together, because all Linux distributions use a kernel.
But hey, let's compare
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/2719/ with
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/13223/
292 vulnerabilities for Linux, 82 for Vista (all time numbers). Of course there are vulnerabilities and vulnerabilities...(Windows XP has 221
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/22/).
So with the majority of hackers targeting Windows, they barely manage to find as many vulnerabilities as the few who target Linux...I'll draw my flawed conclusions from the numbers.
