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Old 02-03-2009, 05:41 PM   #8
dplax
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Default Re: OS vulnerabilities

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Originally Posted by Bungleau View Post
Nope... no drugs here. Those percentages are meaningless, though, without context. And nowhere in that chart or the accompanying link is context provided. 14.3% of what?

My point with the stone tablets is that without context, you don't know what you're looking at. You can't tell whether it's good or bad. Because of the way MS is broken out, I suspect that the authors have an issue with MS. That's just my conjecture, though.

I also don't know how "vulnerabilities" is measured. If the same vulnerability is reported across five operating systems, does it count once or five times?

I'm an equal-opportunity basher... I go after *everyone*.
It's the percentage of vulnerability disclosures. Article on zdnet links to http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-101...orsPicksArea.0 which gives a bit more info on the percentages.
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